Scenario Analysis of Impacts of Changes in Technology, Fertilizer Prices, Highways, Labor Markets, Consumption Expenditure, Rainfall and Price Policy for Semi-Arid Tropical Crop Markets

Abstract

A major purpose of ICRISAT is to develop new technologies and procedures which will increase the productivity of the five mandate SAT crops (sorghum, pearl millet, pigeonpeas, chickpeas and groundnuts) under a variety of environmental conditions. But a productivity change for a particular crop may have important impacts not only on production of that crop, but also on its market price and on the income and therefore the expenditure of its producers..