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Evaluation of Participatory Irrigation Management in Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh
(2008)
Management of water across the country and amongst millions of users in a sustainable manner has become a major challenge. Participatory irrigation management has been actively promoted by the government to overcome many ...
A discussion on price and non-price determinants of rural poverty
(2000-10-13)
It has been argued in this note that the
impact of relative prices on rural poverty
became non-significant in the recent
paper (1998b) by B M Desai and N V
Namboodiri (hereafter as DN) probably
because it is being ...
Groundwater Irrigation in India: Gains, Costs and Risks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in recent years. It has become the main source of growth in irrigated area over the past three decades, and now accounts ...
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing and its Efficiency in India: A Study of Wholesale Markets in the Ahmedabad Area
(2009-09-02)
There has been concern in the recent years regarding the efficiency of marketing of fruits and vegetables in India. It is believed that poor efficiency in the marketing channels and poor marketing infrastructure is leading ...
The Adoption and Economics of Bt Cotton in India: Preliminary Results from a Study
(2009-08-13)
The paper presents preliminary results from a study of the economics and adoption of Bt cotton in India. Biotech crops, which made their appearance in the world about a decade ago, have gained substantial popularity and ...
Returns and Economics of Bt Cotton vis-a-vis Traditional Cotton Va- rieties in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu
(2009)
Major advances in biotechnology have led to many developments and one has been the introduction of Bt cotton. Given the controversy, the study evaluates the performance and returns of Bt cotton across the major cotton ...
Technical change and market price effects on income distribution in Indian rice economy
(2009-12-12)
The study suggests that while non-product price policies encouraging technical change and market infrastructure development would be beneficial to both PCC and NPC, the rice price support would be needed once technical ...