Marketing of seeds of Stylosanthes — a tropical legume in India
Stylosanthes is a hardy legume known for its adaptability to different soil, rainfall and climatic regimes.Its natural adaptation to varied climatic factors along with its other positive characters like preventing soil erosion, improving soil quality by fixing atmospheric nitrogen and increase fodder availability created a huge demand for stylo seeds in watershed programs.Over the last three‐four decades, India has supported rehabilitation of micro watersheds through a range of schemes and programs in which it invests over 300 billion rupees annually.Like wise, bilateral and multilateral donor agencies are funding many watershed development programs in India.This mushrooming of watershed programs through out India created a huge demand for Stylo seeds.The formal grass and legume seed production sector in India,is small in size and confined to production and supply of selected species only.In some pockets of the country, farmers are involved in production of forage seeds.In Deccan plateau, it is observed in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh where farmers of more than 30 villages produce seeds of Stylosanthes, since 1977.A study was conducted to analyze the marketing of stylo seeds by the farmers of the said district.
Stylosanthes seeds area and production market channels
Nagaratna Biradar K.Sridhar C.R.Ramesh
Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute,Regional Research Station,DharWAd-580 005,K arnataka,India
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）