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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 ...
Professionalism in co-operatives for rural credit
(2009-12-12)
This paper deals with professionalism required in rural credit cooperative as business enterprise and also as an institution of its members in addition to that in formulation and implementation of macro rural cooperative ...
Theoretical and policy making contributions of research on agricultural economics: a success or failure or neither?
(2009-12-14)
This paper discusses following five issues by briefly considering the historical context of agriculture, innate biological nature of production process in agriculture, and initial conditions that agriculture inherited at ...
Rural banking: misdirected policy changes
(2010-07-14)
Three policy alternatives can be identified for improving the profitability
of commercial banks' rural branches: closing loss-making rural branches,
improving the interest spread for these branches and diversifying ...
Food subsidy: concept, rationale, implementation design and policy reforms
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2014)
This paper counters negative advocacy about the food subsidy, the public distribution system, and farm price supports. It argues that the public food supply chain for market intervention has a favourable impact on the ...
Economics of resource use on sample farms of central Gujarat
(2010-05-18)
This paper considers whether or not the returns on the resource
use for a sample farms located in two distinct parts of central Gujarat,
given their respective production functions, are maximized and if not,
why ...
Cooperative rural banking: Anad shows the growth - Oriented path
(2010-03-31)
This paper is about how Anand Farmers Service Cooperative Bank could be successful under the same macro rural credit policies that governed most rural financial institutions. This bank is innovative in both the spirit of ...
Comparative performance of farmers service societies and primary agricultural cooperative credit societies
(2010-07-27)
This paper analyses performance of Farmers' Service Societies (FSS) and Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS) comparatively. Features of these two field-level rural financial institutions (RFIs) are ...
Performance of institutional finance for agricultural development
(2010-03-22)
This paper analyses the performance of rural institutional finance system and based on that draw implication for improving this performance. Section II provides a conceptualization of performance criteria. Section III ...
Development of food-processing industries
(2010-03-22)
The paper has analysed development and financial, with special reference to working capital management, performance of the selected food-processing industries. It prioritizes these industries for their development based ...