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Towards institutionalizing sustainable agriculture in India as a response to climate change: preparations needed for COP15
(Agricultural Situation in India, 2009-01-28)
Agricultural activities are considered to simultaneously contribute to and suffer from the process of climatic change. Existing literature suggests the effects on both counts to be much higher in developing countries than ...
Study of the extent of price transmission under agriculture trade liberalisation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2000-03)
The main objective of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) is to correct the distortion in international trade in_ agriculture. Under the renegotiations of agriculture, it is believed that reduction ...
Productivity of rural credit: a review of issues and some recent literature
(International Journal of Rural Management, 2007-11-11)
The policy intervention in agriculture has been credit driven. This is even more pronounced in the recent interventions made by the State in the package announced for distressed farmers, in doubling agricultural credit, ...
Small farmers: an endangered species
(2001-10-18)
The average size of farm holdings in India was 1.57 hectares in 1990-91. Nearly 60 per cent of them constituting 63 million farming families owned less than one hectare of land. Another 20 million families owned less than ...
Competitiveness of Indian coconut under WTO regime
(2001-10-19)
Managing Knowledge, Creating Networks and Triggering Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
In this paper, the author discuss the major knowledge gaps, stress the importance of peer learning and building upon farmers’ own innovations and suggest new initiatives for transforming extension strategies. He have ...
Profile and performance of some Farm Input Industries
(2009-12-14)
Modernisation of agriculture requires different farm inputs industries like seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, implements and machinery, feed for livestocks and electricity. This is because new technologies in agriculture are ...
Western Indian seed company
(2000-08-20)
The case depicts the situation where a seed enterprise gives its seed production programme to the farmers. Since, the farmers are reluctant to accept the offer, the Production Manager of Western India Seed Company is ...