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ICRISAT ANNUAL REPORT 1976-1977 I n
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About This Report This is the fourt
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F a r m i n g s y s t e m s 129,133
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Dr. Djibril Sene (Member) Delegatio
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N. Seetharama, Ph.D., plant physiol
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Acronyms and selected abbreviations
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Director's Introduction The year de
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A high point of the ICRISAT year wa
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Research has reached the stage wher
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Work continued on the ICRISAT water
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ing Board has established a standin
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made by the ICRISAT programs in Afr
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The efficiency of small plots in sc
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shows great potential for reduced s
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T H E C E R E A L S Sorghum (Sorghu
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S o r g h u m Germplasm Collection
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Table 1 continued Institution Locat
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ny are being evaluated jointly with
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Table 5. Grain-yield dsta on some e
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Table 7. The relationship between c
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Table 8. Yield data of selected gra
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3000 2 500 2000 A. M i l d Stress r
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Products Institute, London. The maj
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focused on learning how to manage o
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acetylene-induced ethylene producti
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P e a r l M i l l e t Germplasm We
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Figure 15. Cluster bagging and self
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Figure 18. Multiplication plot of a
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taken on potential parents, is bein
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Six hybrids in P M H T 1 yielded on
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the south (at Bhavanisagar) and wor
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Figure 22. Transverse section of th
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Relationship Among Plant Type, Popu
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materials in a sick-plot (i.e. a fi
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Ergot Less progress has been made w
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Using a 3:1 ratio to convert ethyle
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Pathology. The large-scale field sc
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search for new strains and related
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Table 64 continued Watershed 8 Plan
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Figure 81. The BW8 tank partially f
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Table 66. Rainfall and runoff on BW
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Table 68. Erosion on Vertisol and A
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establishment and to sorghum on Alf
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Table 70. Total land area and perce
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Table 72. Grain yields and rupee va
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Table 74. Rainfall-use efficiencies
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further investigated, Management sy
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E c o n o m i c s P r o g r a m The
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80 70 60 Small farm Medium farm Lar
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D i s t r i b u t i o n Number of o
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Table 75. Sex distribution of hand-
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Compared to predrought years, indeb
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incomes of the least-affluent group
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Table 77. Projected demand and past
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2 8 5 0 0 2 7 5 0 0 2 6 5 0 0 25 50
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— to identify necessary condition
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eties of sorghum and millet that pr
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earlier. A season of crossing and t
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for these crops. ICRISAT has develo
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Table 80. Participants in the ICRIS
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met to review the progress of breed
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Table 81. Seed samples exported or
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Figure 100. ICRISA T plant quaranti
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the meeting of April 1977 that all
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operational, all accounts will be c
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on Agricultural Librarianship and D
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