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creators_name: Ramasamy, C
creators_name: Bantilan, M C S
creators_name: Elangovan, S
creators_name: Asokan, M
icrisatcreators_name: Bantilan, M C S
icrisatcreators_name: Asokan, M
affiliation: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University(Coimbatore)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Perceptions and Adoption Decisions of Farmers in Cultivation of Improved Pearl Millet Cultivars - A Study in Tamil Nadu
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subjects: S1.5
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note: The authors gratefully acknowledge the useful comments made by an anonymous referee in revising the paper
abstract: Pearl millet is grown in about 10 million hectares in India producing 7 million tonnes of grains (Government of India. 1996). It is grown in most of the states in India but is found to have concentrated in nine states, namely. Rajastl-ian, Gujarat. Haryana. Maharashtra. Uttar Pradesh. Tamil Nadu. Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. thus showing its adaptability not only across physio-geographic but also across socio-economic environments and its resilience to grow in most unfavourable el'tvironmenb such as parts of Rajasthan.! The key feature. however, is th~t 'the crop is largely grown in dry and marginal lands. on which the poor depend for their livelihood. Increasil1g the production of this coarse cereal means ensuring food security to the millions of poor who largely live in backward and resource-poor regions of India.
date: 1999
date_type: published
publication: Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
volume: 54
number: 2
publisher: The Indian Society of Agricultural Economics
pagerange: 139-154
refereed: TRUE
official_url: http://www.isaeindia.org/
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citation:   Ramasamy, C and Bantilan, M C S and Elangovan, S and Asokan, M  (1999) Perceptions and Adoption Decisions of Farmers in Cultivation of Improved Pearl Millet Cultivars - A Study in Tamil Nadu.  Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 54 (2).  pp. 139-154.      
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