<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Baseline Scenario of Postrainy Season Sorghum Economy in Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. Working Paper Series No. 38"^^ . "Postrainy season sorghum is one of the major dietary staple cereal crops in Marathwada\r\nregion supporting food and fodder security. Currently, the productivity levels are extremely\r\nlow because of limited adoption of dryland technologies by the poor. Thus, the HOPE\r\nproject aimed at increasing the productivity of sorghum and pearl millet by 35-40%\r\nover the base level in South Asia through introducing on-shelf technology and improved\r\nmanagement practices in the targeted clusters over a period of four years. In this regard,\r\nthe baseline survey was conducted in the primary project intervention area (HOPE)\r\nwhere improved technologies have been introduced and in matching control villages\r\nwith comparable agro-ecological and market conditions in non-intervention area (non-\r\nHOPE), where improved technologies have not been made. The objective of the baseline\r\nsurvey was to appraise the existing situation of the targeted cluster villages with respect\r\nto adoption of technologies, productivity, income, yield gaps and other socioeconomic\r\nissues. The coverage area of improved rabi sorghum varieties were around 15% in HOPE\r\nand 5% in non-HOPE areas, where the yield gap was estimated at 40–50% as compared to\r\nthe potential yield for the improved varieties. The productivity of rabi sorghum in the HOPE\r\narea was 1.17 t/ha and in the non-HOPE area 1.2 t/ha. However, in the HOPE area farmers\r\nare receiving a net return of ` 2017 per ha and in the non-HOPE ` 2421 considering all\r\ncosts. The annual per capita income in the HOPE area is ` 32,029, while in the non-HOPE\r\narea, it is ` 40,669, of which 65% is derived from crop enterprise only. There is significant\r\ninvolvement of women in activities such as land preparation, intercultural operations,\r\nharvesting and threshing. Moisture stress especially during sowing and/or terminal\r\nstage and shortage of labor especially during harvesting and threshing were some of the\r\nkey critical constraints expressed by the farmers in adoption of improved rabi sorghum\r\ntechnologies."^^ . "2013" . . . "International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "S"^^ . "Haldar"^^ . "S Haldar"^^ . . "S"^^ . "More"^^ . "S More"^^ . . "M C S"^^ . "Bantilan"^^ . "M C S Bantilan"^^ . . "M G"^^ . "Chandrakanth"^^ . "M G Chandrakanth"^^ . . "N"^^ . "Nagaraj"^^ . "N Nagaraj"^^ . . . . . . "Baseline Scenario of Postrainy Season Sorghum Economy in Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. Working Paper Series No. 38 (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "Marathwada_wps38.pdf"^^ . . . "Baseline Scenario of Postrainy Season Sorghum Economy in Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. Working Paper Series No. 38 (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Baseline Scenario of Postrainy Season Sorghum Economy in Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. Working Paper Series No. 38 (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Baseline Scenario of Postrainy Season Sorghum Economy in Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. Working Paper Series No. 38 (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Baseline Scenario of Postrainy Season Sorghum Economy in Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. Working Paper Series No. 38 (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . . "Baseline Scenario of Postrainy Season Sorghum Economy in Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. Working Paper Series No. 38 (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #6847 \n\nBaseline Scenario of Postrainy Season Sorghum Economy in Marathwada Region of Maharashtra. Working Paper Series No. 38\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics"@en . .