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Macro Organization and Management Model for Implementation of Technical Change in Agriculture
(2010-08-18)
This note first discusses which of the three strategies of extensive farming, intensive agriculture, and seed and resource centred technical change may be chosen. Reasons for its choice are also briefly indicated, besides ...
Strengths and Weaknesses of Agriculture in India
(2010-08-18)
This technical note discusses major recent strengths and weaknesses of Indian agriculture with some past perspective. The purpose is to introduce the students with the present basic strong and weak characteristics and ...
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 ...
A review of a study of SHGs and linkage programme
(2000-10-13)
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 ...
Aneri Farmers' Service Cooperative Bank: A Success Story
(2010-08-16)
The case deals with how bank became a success story in rural banking under the same macro rural credit policies which are being questioned these days. To facilitate analysis, the case provides historical information, profile ...
Financing M/s B K Agrochemicals by ABC Commercial Bank
(2010-08-06)
The case deals with assessing the potential for promoting institutional credit for farm inputs distribution business of M/s B K Agrochemicals in Palanpur taluka of Banaskantha district in Gujarat State. For this purpose ...
Employment Intensity of Agro - Related Industries
(2010-08-11)
This note discusses "direct" and "indirect" employment effects of agro-related industries i.e. food-processing, agro-based other than food-processing, and agri-input industries. It hten deals with the relative importance ...