The study attempts to assess the farmers' perceptions regarding the impact of NFSM-pulses on rainfed agriculture in Maharashtra since pulse crops are mainly cultivated under unirrigated condition in the State. The impact assessment is done with respect to awareness of the farmers regarding NFSM...

The increasing urbanization in India over time has resulted in deceleration or negative growth in productivity of land and resultant decline in availability of food-grains for the consuming population. The growing urban population with near stagnant productivity of food crops has raised several...

The present study attempts to assess the impact of NFSM-pulses on rain fed agriculture in Maharashtra since pulse crops are mainly cultivated under irrigated condition in the State. The study also assesses the effectiveness of NFSM-Pulses on the pulse production in Maharashtra, aside from...

Although the Government has introduced a number of crop-oriented schemes to improve the output of various slow growth foodgrain crops such as pulses and coarse cereals, the success of these schemes will largely depend on the extent of adoption as the farmers grow these crops on poor and...