@article{Shiyani:177551,
      recid = {177551},
      author = {Shiyani, R.L. and Joshi, P.K. and Asokan, M. and Bantilan,  Ma Cynthia S.},
      title = {Adoption of improved chickpea varieties: KRIBHCO  experience in tribal region of Gujarat, India},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {2002-05},
      number = {968-2016-75622},
      pages = {8},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {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.© 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights  reserved.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/177551},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.177551},
}