eprintid: 6422
rev_number: 9
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type: monograph
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org
creators_name: Basavaraj, G
creators_name: Rao, P P
icrisatcreators_name: Basavaraj, G
icrisatcreators_name: Rao, P P
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
title: Regional Analysis of Household Consumption of Sorghum in Major Sorghum-Producing and Consuming States in India-Working Paper Series no. 28.
ispublished: pub
subjects: s1.4
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
note: This research work was carried out under the "HOPE" project. The funding support from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. We thank Alastair Orr, P Kumar and Belum VS Reddy for their comments on the earlier version of the draft.
abstract: In the past, studies that have analyzed household consumption data of the National Sample
Survey Organization (NSSO) show a long term declining trend in per capita consumption
of nutritious cereals such as sorghum and pearl millet both at National and State levels.
However, a true picture can be drawn by looking at the household consumption data at a
disaggregated regional level. Regional disaggregation of sorghum consumption shows that
sorghum is still important in the consumption basket particularly in rural regions of central,
eastern and western Maharashtra, and northern Karnataka. The NSSO data used for this
analysis does not separate consumption by kharif (rainy season) and rabi (postrainy season)
sorghum. The bulk of rabi sorghum is used for food consumption due to its superior grain
quality, while only 40-50% of kharif sorghum is used for direct food use. The finding thus
suggests that an increase in rabi sorghum production through productivity increase would
help to bring down the prices of rabi sorghum and make its consumption affordable for low
income consumers.
date: 2011
date_type: published
publisher: International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
place_of_pub: Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India
pages: 20
institution: International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
department: RP – Markets, Institutions and Policies
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related_url_type: pub
funders: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
projects: HOPE
citation:   Basavaraj, G and Rao, P P  (2011) Regional Analysis of Household Consumption of Sorghum in Major Sorghum-Producing and Consuming States in India-Working Paper Series no. 28.  Working Paper. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/6422/1/J258_2011%20WPS%2028_full.pdf