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Mobilising rural savings
(2010-03-14)
This paper attempts at examining the ways in which various factors affecting savings influence different aspects of a savings decision. The three aspects of a decision to save were identified as the ability to save, the ...
Biogas technology a case of Mahajida village
(2010-03-12)
The household energy consumption accounts for nearly 50 percent of total energy consumption in the developing countries. It is primarily obtained from non-commercial sources such as firewood, animal waste, crop residues, ...
Processing of sugarbeet in India
(2010-03-13)
This working paper makes a part of bigger project on "Economic and Management Aspects of Sugar Production from Sugar beet" sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi, to the Indian Institute ...
Sugarbeet cultivation in India
(2010-03-13)
This Working Paper is a part of the project on 'Economic and Management Aspects of Sugar Production from Sugar beet' sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, to the Indian Institute of Management, ...
Developing linear programming models for farm planning
(2010-03-13)
This working paper is developed to highlight the methodology for identification and evaluation of various constraints and minimum requirements of farm firms, identification of feasible activities and computation of their ...
Financing marketing of agricultural inputs
(2010-07-27)
This paper conceptualizes the need for stocking agricultural inputs to match supply with their demand. The stocks in turn have to be financed. Because of seasonality in demand the general credit limit extended by the banks ...
Agro-processing and contract farming
(2002-10-20)
The view that agriculture and industry are two separate entities in terms of their characteristics and role in economic growth no longer holds goods. The role of agriculture to industrialization is being increasingly ...
Small farmers: an endangered species
(2001-10-18)
The average size of farm holdings in India was 1.57 hectares in 1990-91. Nearly 60 per cent of them constituting 63 million farming families owned less than one hectare of land. Another 20 million families owned less than ...
Tobacco industry in India: constraints for development
(2010-03-28)
India is the third largest producer of tobacco in the world after China and USA. Though it occupies a mere 0.25 per cent of the cropped area in the country, it contributed Rs. 507 crores to the foreign exchange earnings ...
Commercial banks finance for rural development
(2010-03-18)
The participation of commercial banks in rural credit was started with the nationalization of imperial bank of India into State Bank of India in 1955. Initially it was to assist cooperative sector in term lending. Subsequently ...