Kumara Charyulu, D and Bantilan, M C S and Raja Laxmi, A and Moses Shyam, D (2015) Analysing Scientific Strength and Varietal Generation, Adoption and Turnover in Peninsular India: The Case of Sorghum, Pearl Millet, Chickpea, Pigeonpea and Groundnut. In: Crop Improvement, Adoption and Impact of Improved Varieties in Food Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa. CGIAR and CAB International, UK, pp. 265-293. ISBN 9781780644011
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Abstract
The importance of crop genetic improvement research is demonstrated by the Green Revolution, which led to a rapid increase in food production in Asia. Those productivity gains contributed to a reduction in poverty directly through increased farm-household income and indirectly through a long-term decline in the prices of food grains, which account for a large share of poor consumers’ expenditure. The success of crop genetic improvement research that led to the development of improved varieties of food crops is well documented (Evenson and Gollin, 2003; Bantilan et al., 2013). Despite the rapid progress made in the past, poverty is still concentrated in South Asia with around 571 million or one-third of the world’s poor, estimated at about 1.29 billion in 2011 (World Bank, 2012). Substantial scope exists for further reducing poverty through crop genetic improvement by increasing or stabilizing the yield of major food crops, particularly the dryland crops in South Asia. Modern varietal change by itself may not lift large numbers of people out of poverty, but greater dynamism in this area can go a long way toward moving poor people closer to that threshold. Moreover, modern varietal change can set the stage for the adoption of improved crop management practices, thereby making it possible for farmers to reduce the cost of production substantially...
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Divisions: | RP-Market Institutions and Policies |
| CRP: | CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sorghum, Pearl Millet, Chickpea, Pigeonpea, Groundnut, Dryland Crops, Genetic Improvement, Food crops, Crop improvement, Scientific research, Varietal Generation, Institutional linkages, Cultivars |
| Subjects: | Mandate crops > Millets > Pearl Millet Others > Agricultural Research Mandate crops > Chickpea Mandate crops > Pigeonpea Mandate crops > Groundnut Mandate crops > Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Mr Ramesh K |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2017 09:28 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Sep 2017 10:07 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/10196 |
| Acknowledgement: | the ICRISAT authors of Chapter 14 are grateful to officials of ICAR and the AICRP research projects on sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut for their close collaboration and support from the inception of the TRIVSA Project to its end. We also thank scientists of ICRISAT, DSR, IIPR, DGR, respective SAUs and HPRC members for their generous help in data sharing and for their participation in the elicitation process. |
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