Pulse Crops : Socialization And Market Response / Sankar Kr Acharya, Dibyendu Pal, Amitava Biswas, Lakshmi Narasimhaiah

Foreword v Preface vii 1. Introduction 1 2. Review of Literature 4 3. Theoretical Orientation 28 4. Research Methodology 50 5. Results and Discussion 71 6. Summary and Conclusion 115 7. Limitation of the Study 124 Bibliography 125 Index 127

'Pulse is possibly the only crop on this planet that can cater to all the three primers of agricultural livelihoods, economy-ecology-technology, on a single go. It adds nitrogen to soil, protein to human body and income to wallet of farmers, both small and marginal, and people at large. To earn self reliance in pulse production, an array of initiatives has been triggered up to ensure both food and income security for the millions of rural people in India. The book offers deep insights to delve into and examine the technology socialization process of pulse crops and their a marketability level in terms of marketable surplus generated by the growers after meeting their household needs. A count of 150 pulse growing farmers have been interrogated and interacted with to estimate and interpret the cause, direction and level of socialization of pulse crop at the grass root reality, and
thus, hard evidences, generated therewith from a new alluvial agro-ecological setting of India, have been extrapolated to a reference book for scholars and academia in agriculture and ecology across the planet'