eprintid: 7930 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 128 dir: disk0/00/00/79/30 datestamp: 2014-05-05 04:09:41 lastmod: 2014-05-05 04:09:41 status_changed: 2014-05-05 04:09:41 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG creators_name: Suhasini, K creators_name: Girish, K N creators_name: Bantilan, M C S creators_name: Kumara Charyulu, D creators_name: Nageswara Rao, G D creators_name: Jayalakshmi, V creators_name: Vijayakumar, A G creators_name: Mannur, D M creators_name: Satish, Y creators_name: Gaur, P M creators_name: Rao, K P C icrisatcreators_name: Suhasini, K icrisatcreators_name: Girish, K N icrisatcreators_name: Bantilan, M C S icrisatcreators_name: Kumara Charyulu, D icrisatcreators_name: Nageswara Rao, G D icrisatcreators_name: Jayalakshmi, V icrisatcreators_name: Vijayakumar, A G icrisatcreators_name: Mannur, D M icrisatcreators_name: Satish, Y icrisatcreators_name: Gaur, P M icrisatcreators_name: Rao, K P C affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru) country: India title: Chickpea Baseline and Early Adoption Surveys in South Asia Insights from TL-II (Phase-I) Project: Synthesis Report 2013 ispublished: pub subjects: s1.1 divisions: D6 crps: crp1.5 crps: crp1.14 full_text_status: public monograph_type: research_report abstract: Chickpea is one of the most important pulse crops in India. Its area reached a peak at the beginning of the green revolution in the country, but rapid strides in wheat productivity have encouraged farmers in north-western India to substitute wheat for chickpea, causing a fall in its area and production. Nevertheless, the crop soon found a new home in the central and southern states of the country. It was a big challenge for the chickpea scientists in India’s national program and at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT) to breed short duration but high yielding varieties and develop a package of practices suitable to the warmer growing conditions. Very soon, the crop recovered area as well as production on the back of rising productivity. For ICRISAT, the generous support received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) was an excellent opportunity to work with its research and development partners in India to accelerate the productivity growth by following the strategy of Farmer Preferred Varietal Selection (FPVS). This approach shortens the time needed to popularize the new varieties by exposing them to farmers and by backing up the varieties preferred by the farmers through intensive seed production efforts. This report documents the rapid strides made in taking the new varieties to the farmers by the FPVS process, and producing and supplying the seeds of varieties preferred by them during 2007-10. date: 2013 date_type: published series: Research Report No. 19 publisher: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics place_of_pub: Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh pages: 100 id_number: 531-2013 institution: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics department: RP-Market Institutions and Policies related_url_url: http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=%22Chickpea+Baseline+and+Early+Adoption+Surveys+in+South+Asia+Insights+from+TL-II+%28Phase-I%29+Project%3A+Synthesis+Report+2013%22&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&b related_url_type: pub citation: Suhasini, K and Girish, K N and Bantilan, M C S and Kumara Charyulu, D and Nageswara Rao, G D and Jayalakshmi, V and Vijayakumar, A G and Mannur, D M and Satish, Y and Gaur, P M and Rao, K P C (2013) Chickpea Baseline and Early Adoption Surveys in South Asia Insights from TL-II (Phase-I) Project: Synthesis Report 2013. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/7930/1/RP_19.pdf