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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 ...
Marketing of Indian Organic Products: Status, Issues, and Prospects
(2009-09-02)
Organic farm production and trade has emerged as an important sector in India as in other parts of the developing world, and is seen as an important strategy of facilitating sustainable development. This paper locates the ...
Role of state in contract farming in Thailand and India: experiences and lessons for Indian agribusiness policy
(2005-10-26)
The nation-states have been attempting large number of policy measures to institutionalize
contract farming as a solution to the problems of agricultural development. This paper examines
the role of the Thai state in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Organic cotton supply chains and small producers: governance, participation, and strategies
(2006-11-01)
Whether local producers will benefit from trade liberalisation is predicated upon their
ability to enter global value chains or production networks of the lead firms. Understanding
how these chains are organised, controlled ...
Credit, indebtedness and farmer suicides in Punjab: some missing links
(2006-11-01)
The EPW Review of Agriculture (June
30, 2006) with two papers (P Satish,
‘Institutional Credit, Indebtedness and
Suicides in Punjab’ and A Gill and L Singh,
‘Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public
Policy’) on suicides ...
Marketing of liquid milk: a case study of Ahmedabad milk market
(2007-11-09)
Indian dairy industry can be divided into two types of enterprises: Liquid Milk
and Milk Products. In the procurement and marketing of liquid milk, there is strong
presence of co-operative and traditional private channels ...
PSFC: farmers' commission or food security mission
(2008-07-24)
T
he Indian Retail Industry seems to have found its first cross road, after almost 10 years of freeway. During its course it
has sprung several surprises, several avoidable mistakes and some unavoidable circumstances. ...