eprintid: 3549
rev_number: 7
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datestamp: 2011-11-02 08:27:45
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
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creators_name: Gowda, C L L
creators_name: Reddy, B V S
creators_name: Ramesh, S
icrisatcreators_name: Gowda, C L L
icrisatcreators_name: Reddy, B V S
icrisatcreators_name: Ramesh, S
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: From subsistence to market-oriented agriculture: sorghum case study
ispublished: pub
subjects: s1.4
full_text_status: restricted
abstract: 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.
date: 2005
date_type: published
publication: Financing Agriculture
volume: 37
number: 2
publisher: Agricultural Fianance Corporation
pagerange: 34-40
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   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.      
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/3549/1/FinancingAgriculture37_2_34-40_2005.pdf