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Maps Drawn by Farmers and Extensionists
(2010-06-30)
Producer companies as new generation cooperatives
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2008-11-11)
Traditional cooperatives have been unsuccessful in linking small farmers to the global market. Can the development of producer companies as new generation cooperatives turn out to be different.
Growth and transformation of the agribusiness sector: drivers, models, and challenges
(Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2014)
The keynote address presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of ISAE has provided an overview of the agribusiness system, with the significant constraints, demands and shifts that lead to the transformation of agribusiness. ...
Food subsidy in India: its components, trends, causes and reforms for public policy
(Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013)
Food prices play an important role in the well-being of the poor and poverty reduction in developing countries. Therefore, there are government interventions in foodgrains markets in one form or another for several decades, ...
Agricultural trade liberalization and the livelihoods of small farmers in India
(2001-10-19)
The structure of agricultural production in developing countries has radically changed in the last few decades. With structural adjustment policies imposed on developing countries by international organisations, many ...
Productivity of rural credit: a review of issues and some recent literature
(International Journal of Rural Management, 2007-11-11)
The policy intervention in agriculture has been credit driven. This is even more pronounced in the recent interventions made by the State in the package announced for distressed farmers, in doubling agricultural credit, ...
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 ...
Income and employment prospects of drought prone farmers - role of credit and technology
(1990-09-28)
Predominance if rainfed cultivation dictates the prospects or otherwise of Indian agriculture and more so of Karnataka where over 80 per cent of the land is rainfied. Frequent exposure to natural calamities like brought ...