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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 ...
Inter-sectoral terms of trade and aggregate supply response ingujarat and Indian agriculture
(Springer India, 2014)
This paper empirically investigates the role of inter-sectoral terms of trade in determining the growth performance of agriculture in Gujarat and all of India during the period 1960-2011. Structural breaks endogenously ...
Climate change in madhya pradesh: Indicators, impacts and adaptation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-05-26)
Climate variability and climate change pose an enormous pressure on population, infrastructure, livelihood, and socio-economic conditions. Evidences of climate change are already visible on many sectors such as agriculture, ...
Managing the agriculture sector
(2010-03-20)
The paper attempts a broader, systems definition of the agriculture sector. It tries to establish the relevance of managerial concerns to tasks of decision-making in the agriculture sector. This is done through brief ...
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 ...
Technology transfer in agriculture - Case of hybrid bajra
(2010-03-13)
Efficient management of the process of the development of the adaptable technology and the transfer of technology is crucial in achieving economic growth. An adaptable technology may not be transferred if the process of ...
Agriculture - the next decade
(2010-03-14)
For the coming decade the demand for food and non-food agricultural commodities would warrant a rate of growth of 3.5 per cent to 4 per cent per annum in agricultural production. At the end of 1980s, it is likely that the ...
How grassroots innovation took shape
(DNA, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-24)
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 ...