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Book
Modern ICT for agricultural development and risk management in smallholder agriculture in India
(CIMMYT, 2012)
Usually the agricultural sector, and in particular farmers, are highly vulnerable to risks due to high variability in climatic conditions and to market uncertainties. The farmer’s exposure to risk and uncertainty is often ...
Working Paper
Diagnosing research priorities for higher-altitude maize-based farming systems in Swat
(CIMMYT; PARC, 1990)
During 1987, a diagnostic survery was conducted in the higher-altitude farming systems of Swat. This followed a field-specific crop-cut survey of maize fields in the same farming systems in 1985. These surveys were designed ...
Book
Maize research and development in Pakistan
(CIMMYT, 1989)
This report reviews maize research and development in Pakistan over the past 30 years. The role, economic importance, principal production environments, trends in production, area and yields, marketing and price trends for ...
Book
Adoption and impacts of zero-tillage in the rice-wheat zone of irrigated Punjab, Pakistan
(RWC; CIMMYT, 2007)
This study documents the adoption and impacts of zero-tillage (ZT) wheat in the rice wheat systems of Pakistan’s Punjab province primarily drawing on a detailed empirical survey of 458 rice-wheat farmers. Our random ...
Book
Crop-Livestock Interactions and livelihoods in the indo-gangetic plains, India: a regional synthesis
(CIMMYT, 2007)
The research and development community faces the challenge of sustaining crop productivity gains, improving rural livelihoods, and securing environmental sustainability in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). This calls for a ...
Newsletter / Bulletin
Resource conserving technologies in South Asia: frequently asked questions
(CIMMYT, 2010)
Resource Conserving Technology (RCT) is a broad term that refers to any management approach or technology that increases factor productivity including land, labour, capital and inputs. RCTs include a wide range of practices ...
Book
Returns to wheat research in Nepal
(CIMMYT, 1992)
An economic surplus approach is used to analyze economic returns to wheat research (primarily breeding) in Nepal. During the past 30 years, investment in wheat research has generated an internal rate of return ranging from ...
Book
Technical change and wheat productivity in the Indian Punjab in the post green revolution period
(CIMMYT, 1992)
Major changes in the wheat economy of Punjab State, India, since the Widespread adoption of modern varieties (MVs) in the early 1970s, are summarized from an analysis of trends in micro-level farm data and by using an index ...
Book
Dryland wheat in India: the impact of technical change and future research challenges
(CIMMYT, 1992)
This study focuses on the dryland wheat areas of central and southern India (over half of India's total rainfed wheat area), where wheat is produced on deep vertisols in a fallow wheat system depending heavily on the ...
Book
Tropical and subtropical maize in Asia: production systems, constraints, and research priorities
(CIMMYT, 2007)
This book examines future technological and policy prospects for the sustainable intensification of rainfed upland maize production in Asia, and derives R&D priorities for specific maize production environments and markets. ...