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Evaluating Pearl Millet Varieties With Farmers In Barmer District

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Title Evaluating Pearl Millet Varieties With Farmers In Barmer District
 
Creator Choudhary, M K
Weltzien, E
Sharma, M M
 
Subject Millets
 
Description A newly formed NGO, operating in Barmer district in western Rajasthan, applied and modified
methods of farmerparticipatory variety evaluation develop by ICRISA Tscientists in otheri'egions
of Rajasthan. Barmer district has the largest area under pearl millet of all the Indian districts; it
is characterized by low and erratic annual rainfall.
The first year results of varietal evaluations with farmers indicated that farmers from Barmer
district assigned the two highest ranks to varieties with medium to late maturity, large panicles
andhigh yieldpotential. The farmers from the more sandy, drierareas of Barmerdistrict didprefer
higher tillering, earliermaturir~yv arieties, commonly with larger grain size as a secondary group
of desirable materials. The traits used to compare varieties most often were also the characteristics
of the most preferred varieties. Farmers insisted on at least one more year of such evaluations
before a decision on initial adoption of any of these varieties could be taken.
 
Date 1995
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4734/1/CP_1048.pdf
Choudhary, M K and Weltzien, E and Sharma, M M (1995) Evaluating Pearl Millet Varieties With Farmers In Barmer District. In: Using Diversity Enhancing And Maintaining Genetic Resources On-Farm Proceedings Of A Workshop, 19-21 June 1995, New Delhi, India.