Historically, India is the largest producer, consumer
and importer of pulses. Although it is the ... more Historically, India is the largest producer, consumer and importer of pulses. Although it is the world’s largest pulses producer, there is still a huge shortage of pulses and also, the prices are not affordable to a large section of consumers. An immediate need is the development and dissemination of low-cost technologies in pulses production, so that they can be affordable to the common man. Even though pulses production increased by 3.35% per annum during the last decade, the cost of production and consequent prices are too high to be affordable to the common man; to increase production at lower cost is a bigger challenge. The earlier experience shows that technological efforts need to be supported by the right policy environment to harvest fruits of R&D in agriculture (Reddy 2009). Still, the productivity of pulses in India is low at 694 kg/ha, and to make pulses production internationally competitive, the average yield levels need to be increased to at least 1ton/ha.
Vulnerability of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries to Climate Change, 2014
ABSTRACT An integrated modeling framework – IMPACT – which integrates partial equilibrium economi... more ABSTRACT An integrated modeling framework – IMPACT – which integrates partial equilibrium economic model, hydrology model, crop simulation model and climate model was used to examine the ex-ante economic impact of developing and disseminating a drought tolerant sorghum cultivar in target countries of Africa and Asia. The impact of drought tolerant sorghum technology on production, consumption, trade flow and prices of sorghum in target and non-target countries were analyzed. And also we estimated the returns to research investment for developing the promising new drought tolerant cultivars and dissemination in the target countries. The analysis indicates that the economic benefits of drought tolerant sorghum cultivar adoption in the target countries outweighs the cost of developing this new technology. The development and release of this new technology in the target countries of Asia and Africa would provide a net economic benefit of about 1,476.8 million US$ for the entire world under no climate change condition. Under climate change scenarios the net benefits derived from adoption of new drought tolerant sorghum cultivar is higher than the no climate change condition. This is due to higher production realized by sorghum under climate change scenarios. The results imply that substantial economic benefits can be achieved from the development of a drought tolerant sorghum cultivar. And also this technology will perform better than the existing cultivars in future climate change condition.
October -21, 2005 • Chiang Mai, Thailand i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This publication is a result of a coll... more October -21, 2005 • Chiang Mai, Thailand i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This publication is a result of a collaborative research project entitled," Gender dimensions in social capital build-up and technology adoption" funded by FAO-RAP (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Asia and Pacific).
Historically, India is the largest producer, consumer
and importer of pulses. Although it is the ... more Historically, India is the largest producer, consumer and importer of pulses. Although it is the world’s largest pulses producer, there is still a huge shortage of pulses and also, the prices are not affordable to a large section of consumers. An immediate need is the development and dissemination of low-cost technologies in pulses production, so that they can be affordable to the common man. Even though pulses production increased by 3.35% per annum during the last decade, the cost of production and consequent prices are too high to be affordable to the common man; to increase production at lower cost is a bigger challenge. The earlier experience shows that technological efforts need to be supported by the right policy environment to harvest fruits of R&D in agriculture (Reddy 2009). Still, the productivity of pulses in India is low at 694 kg/ha, and to make pulses production internationally competitive, the average yield levels need to be increased to at least 1ton/ha.
Vulnerability of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries to Climate Change, 2014
ABSTRACT An integrated modeling framework – IMPACT – which integrates partial equilibrium economi... more ABSTRACT An integrated modeling framework – IMPACT – which integrates partial equilibrium economic model, hydrology model, crop simulation model and climate model was used to examine the ex-ante economic impact of developing and disseminating a drought tolerant sorghum cultivar in target countries of Africa and Asia. The impact of drought tolerant sorghum technology on production, consumption, trade flow and prices of sorghum in target and non-target countries were analyzed. And also we estimated the returns to research investment for developing the promising new drought tolerant cultivars and dissemination in the target countries. The analysis indicates that the economic benefits of drought tolerant sorghum cultivar adoption in the target countries outweighs the cost of developing this new technology. The development and release of this new technology in the target countries of Asia and Africa would provide a net economic benefit of about 1,476.8 million US$ for the entire world under no climate change condition. Under climate change scenarios the net benefits derived from adoption of new drought tolerant sorghum cultivar is higher than the no climate change condition. This is due to higher production realized by sorghum under climate change scenarios. The results imply that substantial economic benefits can be achieved from the development of a drought tolerant sorghum cultivar. And also this technology will perform better than the existing cultivars in future climate change condition.
October -21, 2005 • Chiang Mai, Thailand i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This publication is a result of a coll... more October -21, 2005 • Chiang Mai, Thailand i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This publication is a result of a collaborative research project entitled," Gender dimensions in social capital build-up and technology adoption" funded by FAO-RAP (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Asia and Pacific).
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and importer of pulses. Although it is the world’s
largest pulses producer, there is still a huge shortage
of pulses and also, the prices are not affordable to
a large section of consumers. An immediate need
is the development and dissemination of low-cost
technologies in pulses production, so that they can
be affordable to the common man. Even though
pulses production increased by 3.35% per annum
during the last decade, the cost of production and
consequent prices are too high to be affordable to the
common man; to increase production at lower cost
is a bigger challenge. The earlier experience shows
that technological efforts need to be supported by
the right policy environment to harvest fruits of R&D
in agriculture (Reddy 2009). Still, the productivity of
pulses in India is low at 694 kg/ha, and to make pulses
production internationally competitive, the average
yield levels need to be increased to at least 1ton/ha.
and importer of pulses. Although it is the world’s
largest pulses producer, there is still a huge shortage
of pulses and also, the prices are not affordable to
a large section of consumers. An immediate need
is the development and dissemination of low-cost
technologies in pulses production, so that they can
be affordable to the common man. Even though
pulses production increased by 3.35% per annum
during the last decade, the cost of production and
consequent prices are too high to be affordable to the
common man; to increase production at lower cost
is a bigger challenge. The earlier experience shows
that technological efforts need to be supported by
the right policy environment to harvest fruits of R&D
in agriculture (Reddy 2009). Still, the productivity of
pulses in India is low at 694 kg/ha, and to make pulses
production internationally competitive, the average
yield levels need to be increased to at least 1ton/ha.