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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Soja.
Data corrente: | 06/08/1993
Data da última atualização: | 06/10/2004
Autoria: | BHATNAGAR, P. S.
Afiliação: | India Council of Agricultural Research, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnager 263145, U.P. India.
Título: | Soybean in India - retrospective and perspective.
Ano de publicação: | 1984
Fonte/Imprenta: | In: SYMPOSIUM ON TROPICAL AGRICULTURE RESEARCH, 1983, Tsukuba. International Symposium on Soybean in the Tropics and Subtropics: proceedings. Yatabe : TARC, 1984.
Páginas: | p.11-22.
Série: | (Tropical Agriculture Research Series, 17).
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | Unless suitable measures are taken in time, rapid increase in population could further increase the gravity of the global problem of food and oil shortage. Soybean, often designated as miracle crop with over 40% protein and 20% oil, has now been recognized all over the world as a potential supplementary source of edible oil and nutritious food. In a society predominantly vegetarian as that of India, the importance of soybean is even more conspicuous. Soybean is not new for India: black soybean has been cultivated for ages in hills and in some scattered pockets of Central India. However strangely enough, the crop has not so far become popular in the Indian subcontinent and other tropical countries. The importance of soybean in India as a crop to narrow the oiland protein gap has now been generally appreciated and ambitious plans have been drawn-up. Compared to pulse crops grown in India, soybean produces about 2.5 times more yield with twice as much protein and 20% edible oil. Area under soybean has increased from 300 hectares in 1968 to 900,000 hectares in 1982. Recognizing the potential of soybean to augment production of vegetable oil and protein-rich food, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, launched the multi-locational inter-disciplinary All India Coordinated Research Project on Soybean. There are 19 centers involved in the project with represent different agro-climatic regions of the country. In addition, research is also undertaken elsewhere in the country. The headquarters of the project are ...
Palavras-Chave: | Production; Seed; Soybean.
Thesagro: | Microbiologia; Pesquisa; Produção; Semente; Soja; Tecnologia.
Thesaurus Nal: | India; microbiology; research; technology.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Soja (CNPSO)