relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/3549/
title: From subsistence to market-oriented agriculture: sorghum case study
creator: Gowda, C L L
creator: Reddy, B V S
creator: Ramesh, S
subject: Sorghum
description: Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a major cereal ranking fifth in the world after wheat, maize and barley. It is the third important  foodgrain after rice and wheat for millions of the poorest and most foodinsecure in the Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT) in India. Being a C4 species with higher photosynthetic ability, and nitrogen and wateruse efflclency, is genetically well suited to the hot and dry agroecosystems It is difficult to profitably cultivate foodgrain crops such as maize.
publisher: Agricultural Fianance Corporation
date: 2005
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/3549/1/FinancingAgriculture37_2_34-40_2005.pdf
identifier:   Gowda, C L L and Reddy, B V S and Ramesh, S  (2005) From subsistence to market-oriented agriculture: sorghum case study.  Financing Agriculture, 37 (2).  pp. 34-40.