Trading Millet And Sorghum Genetic Resources
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Author | : Melinda Smale, Lamissa Diakité, Brahima Dembélé, Issa Seni Traoré, Oumar Guindo, and Bouréma Konta |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Melinda Smale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Agriculture and state |
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Author | : Mohar Singh |
Publisher | : Woodhead Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-09-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0128204052 |
Millets and Pseudo Cereals is the first comprehensive resource to focus on the potential crop improvements through genetic enhancements. The choice of food crop for a region is primarily determined by the conditions of climate and soil. Once labelled as orphan crops, millets and pseudo-cereals are now known as miracle grains due to their adaptation to harsh conditions and high nutritional quality. Small millets and pseudo-cereals are now seen to occupy special niches through their ability to adapt to challenging conditions. These crops have a comparative advantage in marginal lands where they withstand stress conditions and contribute to sustainable production. They also contribute to the diversity-richness and production stability of agro-ecosystems. Millets include sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, barnyard millet, little millet and kodo millet while the other group which are not cereals but consumed as cereals and generally referred as pseudo-cereals comprises of grain amaranths, buckwheat and chenopods. Millets and Pseudo Cereals presents current information on the genetic architecture of important economic traits and the genomic resources for gene enabled breeding. This compilation contains information on the global status, available germplasm resources, nutritional value, breeding advancements, genomics applications and sustainability of agriculture through millets and pseudo-cereals cultivation. This book is a valuable resource for those conducting research and exploring new areas for advancing crop genetic understanding. Explores the current challenges of pseudo-cereal production and how that can be overcome by developing genetic and breeding resources using appropriate germplasm Provides holistic information on millets and pseudo-cereals Features global perspectives from an international contributing team of authors
Author | : Jagannath V. Patil |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2017-03-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1119123054 |
Millets and sorghum are extremely important crops in many developing nations and because of the ability of many of them to thrive in low-moisture situations they represent some exciting opportunities for further development to address the continuing and increasing impact of global temperature increase on the sustainability of the world’s food crops. The main focus of this thorough new book is the potential for crop improvement through new and traditional methods, with the book’s main chapters covering the following crops: sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, foxtail milet, proso millet, little millet, barnyard millet, kodo millet, tef and fonio. Further chapters cover pests and diseases, nutritional and industrial importance, novel tools for improvement, and seed systems in millets. Millets and Sorghum provides full and comprehensive coverage of these crucially important crops, their biology, world status and potential for improvement, and is an essential purchase for crop and plant scientists, and food scientists and technologists throughout the developed and developing world. All libraries in universities and research establishment where biological and agricultural sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this important book on their shelves.
Author | : Latha Nagarajan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Millet |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Melak H. Mengesha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Germplasm resources, Plant |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leslie Lipper |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1844077845 |
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : E. Acheampong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Forage plants |
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Author | : Patricia Kristjanson |
Publisher | : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Crop residues as feed |
ISBN | : 9789291460533 |
The estimated present value (US$42 million) of the proposed ILRI/ICRISAT/NARS collaborative research project on genetic improvement of millet and sorghum crop residues indicates fairly attractive returns, even with the cautious assumption made about likely adoption rates and the scope of the benefits (i.e. only meat and milk production in cattle in India). The estimated IRR to this research investment (28%) can be compared to market rates on alternative investments. Most longer-run, low-risk, private-sector investments yield rates of return three times as high as alternative investments. However, this raises the question of what is an appropriate rate of return to expect from 'public'good' type of investment such as the investment in international development oriented research. The same methodological approach was recently used (Kristjanson et al 1999) to estimate potential returns to a similary challenging crop-livestock research area, a vaccine against potential returns to a similarly challenging crop-livestock research area, a vaccine against trypanosomosis (a serious livestock disease that poses the greatest development constraint to mixed livestock-crop systems across Africa). Potential returns to this research were estimated at US$ 118 million, with an IRR of 25%, and a benefit:cost ratio of 15:1. In a comparison of predicted rates of return across 5 crop-livestock related research areas at ILRI, potential research benefits were estimated to outweigh the costs of the research by between 9 and 37 times. Returns of similar magnitudes have also been estimated for other crop improvement research. In an economic analysis of returns to 15 research themes at the Centro International de la Papa (CIP) the NPVs ranged from US$ 1 million to US$ 195 million (average US$ 67 million), with IRRs ranging from 13% to 51% (Walker and Collion 1997). ICRISAT ranked returns to 110 different research areas as part of their research priority-setting process several years ago. The average NPV, net benefit:cost ratio and IRR for the top 20 of those were US$ 61 million (with a range from US$ 8 million to US$ 265 million), 52:1 and 39%, respectively (Kelley et al 1995). Thus it appears that the magnitude of returns predicted in this study are very much in line with returns to similar research investments.