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Book of Abstracts <strong>First</strong> <strong>Legume</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> 2013: A <strong>Legume</strong> Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013<br />

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Eco-friendly early maturing pigeonpea to enhance the livelihoods of recourse-poor<br />

farmers of Rajasthan<br />

Servejeet Singh 1 , KM Vishnuvardhan 2 , KB Saxena 2<br />

1 ARS, Durgapura, SKRAU, Rajasthan<br />

2 ICRISAT, Patancheru<br />

Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) is an important pulse crop in rain-fed agriculture in the<br />

semi arid tropics of India. Even though pigeonpea is the second most important pulse crop in<br />

Rajasthan, due to the ignorance of farmers about early maturing varieties, the crop is cultivated in<br />

very less area as local/desi varieties. In viewpoint the project ‘Eco-friendly early maturing<br />

pigeonpea to enhance the livelihoods of recourse-poor farmers of Rajasthan’ has introduced into<br />

the farmer locality of Rajasthan by ICRISAT, in cooperation with SKRAU, Rajasthan to enhance<br />

the area production and productivity of pigeonpea. During 2012 cropping season we have<br />

covered 212 demonstrations in 212 ha in Jaipur district, in that most of the area (177ha) from<br />

Padasoli village. From yield point of view, overall the Jaipur district the highest yield was<br />

observed as 1900 kg/ha with an average productivity of 1119 kg/ha. This crop made the farmers<br />

of Jaipur district from almost zero return to tremendous returns which they did not expect like<br />

before that they got thirteen times more returns than their expenditure. By sure this crop changed<br />

the fate of the farmers of Jaipur district.<br />

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