Economics of finger millet

Research information on response of crops to phosphorus and potassium levels generated very scanty and as such generating further information is very much essential specially in low phosphorus and potassium containing soils to combat the present situation. With this in view, the present study was initiated in low phosphorus and potassium soils to assess the effect of phosphorus and potassium levels on growth, yield and economics of finger millet in Alfisols of Ramanagara district of Karnataka.

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A field experiment to study the effect of different sowing dates on growth and yield of finger millet cultivars under rainfed conditions was conducted during three consecutive kharif seasons of 2016, 2017 and 2018 at the experimental farm of Zonal Agricultural Research Station, Sub-montane Zone, Kolhapur (Maharashtra) India.

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A field experiment was conducted during the Kharif season of 2019 at Agronomy Instructional Farm, Mandan Bharti Agriculture College, Saharsa, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar to evaluate the best finger millet based inter cropping with different legumes. Based on the results, it was concluded that intercropping of finger millet with black gram at 4:2 pair row ratio was distinctly superior among all intercropping system found most profitable by realizing the highest net return.

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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important cereal crop and prone to many diseases out ofwhich, rice blast caused by Pyricularia grisea is of significant economic importance due to its destructive nature leading to serious yield loss. Blast infected leaves of rice, Panicum grass and finger millet were collected from different fields of OUAT farm, Bhubaneswar.

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A field experiment was conducted during rabi 2015 and rabi 2016 in farmers’ field of Chokkahalli village of Chintamani taluk, Chikkaballapura district coming under eastern dry zone Karnataka to study the effect of bio-digested liquid manures on productivity, nutrient uptake and economics of finger millet.

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Field studies were conducted at Agricultural Research Station (ARS), Vizianagaram in red sandy loam soils during rabi 2017-18 with different crops viz., finger millet (variety, Sri Chaitanya), horse gram (variety, VZM-1) and sunnhemp (variety, SH-4). Cost economics was worked out to study the suitability of different rabi crops based on their profitability.

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A field experiment was conducted during Kharif 2017 at Zonal Agricultural and Horticultural Research Station, Babbur farm, Hiriyur to study effect of groundnut + millets intercropping system on yield and economic advantage in Central dry zone of Karnataka under rainfed condition. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with ten treatments comprising of three millets viz., finger millet, little millet and foxtail millet with groundnut in the replacement series of 5:2 and 6:1 row proportion and their sole crops replicated thrice.

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Blast (Magnaporthe grisea) is an economically important disease of finger millet in India. The cross infectivity of M. grisea isolates of leaf, neck and finger blast from finger millet can infect weed host viz., Pennisetum cenchroides, Pennisetum pureum and Cynodon dactylon but not the rice, foxtail millet and little millet. The vice versa pattern of cross infection were observed between the leaf, neck and finger blast pathogens.

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The present study on socio-economic characteristics, food habits and dietary intake of rural women was conducted in selected villages of Bangalore rural district in Karnataka state. The selected villages were Heggadehalli of Doddballapur taluk and Venkatahalli of Devanahalli taluk during the year 2013-14. The data was collected from the 200 rural women using semi structured interview schedule. The collected data was analysed using appropriate statistical tools.

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In the present scenario of globalization, liberalization and privatization of agricultural sector, the sustainable development and empowerment of farm women is considered as a key factor for development of any country. According to the 2011 census of India, women constitute half of the total population. Participation of women in economic activities is now emerging as a universal phenomenon. Advancement of information and communication technologies created many opportunities for the development of talents of women in entrepreneurship activities.

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Field experiment was conducted during Kharif from 2010 to 2015 at GKVK, Bangalore to know the feasibility of cultivation of fingermillet in Melia dubia. There were six treatment combinations comprising intercrop of finger millet planted in different spacings with Melia dubia and finger millet alone as control. Results revealed that, sole finger millet recorded significantly higher grain (26.1 q ha-1 ) and straw yield (5865 kg ha-1 ), which was attributed to higher growth and yield attributes like number of productive tillers (6.17 hill-1 ) and 1000 seed weight (3.69 g).

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Agriculture and Food processing sector is the backbone of India’s economy in terms of income, employment generation and ensuring food and nutritional security. A women entrepreneur is one who innovates, initiates or adopts a business activity. Women Entrepreneur is a person who accepts challenging role to meet her personal needs and become economically independent. The study was conducted in Hassan district of Karnataka state. The district Comprises of 8 taluk`s viz., Hassan, Arakalagudu, Alur, Sakaleshpura, Channarayapatna, Holenarasipura, Belur and Arasikere.

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