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Engineering the agriculture in Kutch: Fodder Factory -1
(2009-12-12)
This paper discusses the concept of controlled environment agriculture which may be necessary to bring arid areas like Kutch under production.
Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration
(2009-07-25)
Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of ...
Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations for Managing Resources, Institutions and Technologies Sustainably: A Case of Agriculture, Medicinal Plants and Biotechnology
(2009-07-25)
Communities living close to nature invariably evolve a language to understand and interpret the variations and discontinuities in nature. A flower of new colour, an unusually tall plant, an unseasonal germination or an ...
Process, People, Power and Conflict: Some Lessons from a Participatory Policy Process in Andhra Pradesh, India
(2009-07-30)
A large body of empirical literature highlights the need for stakeholder participation within the context of policy change and democratic governance. This makes intuitive sense and may appear to be a straightforward process ...
Corporate Farming in India: Is it Must for Agricultural Development?
(2009-08-21)
Indian agriculture is under policy reforms for some time now. One of the issues it faces is that of lack of viability of smaliholdings and lack of international competitiveness of its produce. In this regard, new initiatives ...
Catalysing Indian agriculture
(2009-12-12)
This somewhat non-technical and brief paper synthesizes the literature on what to catalyse for the Strategy for agriculture and how to accomplish this strategy through public policies for government expenditure, reorganization ...
Study of organic food world market, market research to study the consumer behaviour, branding and marketing strategy for companies in the organic food market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2000-02)
Crisis and diversification in Punjab agriculture : role of state and agribusiness
(2004-10-26)
The farming crisis in post-green revolution Punjab has assumed serious proportions,
manifested in suicides by a large number of farmers. This paper examines the nature and
magnitude of crisis in the farm sector in the ...
Agriculture insurance in India: scope for participation of private insurers?
(2004-10-26)
Government-run crop yield insurance scheme, procurement at minimum support
prices and calamity relief funds are the major instruments being used to protect the Indian
farmer from agricultural variability. The proposed ...
Contract farming system in Thailand
(2005-10-28)
Thailand is one of the pioneers in contract farming in Asia. The Thai state has actively
promoted this mechanism of agricultural production and marketing coordination since the
mid-1980s. This paper examines the nature ...