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Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Jones, Samantha (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002-09
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16746
Journal Title:
World Development
Journal Title Details:
30(9) : 1607-1620
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15865
Journal Title:
Agri Marketing
Journal Title Details:
40(10) : 34
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Agri Marketing staff (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14498
Journal Title:
Agri Marketing
Journal Title Details:
40(6) : 12-14
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Napier, T. L. (author) and Bridges, T. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 125 Document Number: C16239
Journal Title:
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Journal Title Details:
57(4): 229-235
Notes:
ACDC has abstract only, 7 p.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Shiyani, R. L. (author), Joshi, P. K. (author), Asokan, M. (author), and Bantilan, M. C. S. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002-05
Published:
India: Elsevier
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18709
Journal Title:
Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:
27 (1) 33-39
Notes:
Agricultural Economics (Amsterdam, Netherlands), The study aims to track adoption of improved chickpea varieties, and assess their on-farm benefits in some remote and backward tribal villages in Gujarat, India, where few newly developed varieties were introduced by a non-government organization. It also determines key factors which were influencing their adoption. The study found that adoption of improved chickpea varieties was gradually increasing by replacing a prominent local variety. Duration of crop maturity, farm size, yield risk, and farmers' experience of growing chickpea crop were significantly influencing their adoption. The on-farm benefits as a result of improved varieties were realized in terms of increased yield levels, higher income and labor productivity, more marketable surplus, price premium and stabilized yields in fluctuating weather. Breeding short duration varieties with stable yield levels under varying weather, and organizing seed multiplication and dissemination in regions, where moisture stress is a problem during maturity of chickpea, are the major suggestions.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Rajasekharan, P. (author) and Veeraputhran, S. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002-10
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16788
Journal Title:
Agroforestry Systems
Journal Title Details:
56(1) : 1-11
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Napier, T. L. (author) and Robinson, J.R. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22014
Journal Title:
Agricultural Systems
Journal Title Details:
72 : 197-213
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Freeman, H.A. (author), Van der Merwe, P.J.A. (author), Subrahmanyam, P. (author), Chiyembekeza, A.J. (author), and Kaguongo, W. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002-04
Published:
Malawi
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16789
Journal Title:
Experimental Agriculture
Journal Title Details:
38(2) : 211-221
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Darnhofer, I. (author), Schneeberger, W. (author), and Eder, M. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Austria
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29064
Journal Title:
American Journal of Alternative Agriculture
Journal Title Details:
17(1) : 24-31
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
McCown, R.L. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002-10
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07718
Journal Title:
Agricultural Systems
Journal Title Details:
74 (1): 179-220