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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 ...
Agriculture insurance in India: scope for participation of private insurers?
(2004-10-26)
Government-run crop yield insurance scheme, procurement at minimum support
prices and calamity relief funds are the major instruments being used to protect the Indian
farmer from agricultural variability. The proposed ...
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 ...
Towards institutionalizing sustainable agriculture in India as a response to climate change: preparations needed for COP15
(Agricultural Situation in India, 2009-01-28)
Agricultural activities are considered to simultaneously contribute to and suffer from the process of climatic change. Existing literature suggests the effects on both counts to be much higher in developing countries than ...
Inter-sectoral terms of trade and aggregate supply response ingujarat and Indian agriculture
(Springer India, 2014)
This paper empirically investigates the role of inter-sectoral terms of trade in determining the growth performance of agriculture in Gujarat and all of India during the period 1960-2011. Structural breaks endogenously ...
Energy demand forecast for agriculture in India
(1990-07-13)
Earlier attempts on forecasting energy demand for agriculture have largely been based on aggregate macrolevel
data and overall national averages and trends. Useful as they are in indicating some broad trends, these
forecasts ...
Agricultural finance corporation, Zimbabwe
(1994-10-04)
The case by IM Pandey and S Ramnarayan
published in this issue throws up the
following issues for discussion. First, what
are the major changes in the environment of
AFC and what are the major elements of
AFC's strategy ...
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 ...
Policy for Punjab’s agriculture: will it deliver?
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2013)
Punjab's new agriculture policy based on a report prepared by the Committee for Formulation of Agriculture Policy for Punjab focuses on yield enhancement and market orientation instead of demand-driven agriculture. While ...
Modelling energy use in Indian agriculture: a sectoral approach
(1989-09-28)
Since 1973, prices of energy and energy
related inputs have been rising. Rising
prices have brought about structural
changes not only in agriculture but also in
other sectors of the economy. In this article,
Tewari ...