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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 ...
Food processing and contract farming in AP (Discussion)
(2005-10-26)
In any analysis of contract farming there needs to be a
greater clarity of what defines this kind of relationship between
farmers and companies. There must in essence be pre-negotiated
terms and conditions between the ...
Post-harvest problems of field crops
(2000-10-18)
Post-harvest problems in field crops refer to the problems experienced by the producer after testing the crop till the produce is disposed. Since under commercial agriculture crops are for the market the genesis of ...
BTR Ltd. Rampur, UP (Diagnostic Case)
(1988-09-27)
BTR, a manufacturer of turpentine oil and
rosin, is a member of a consortium of eight
state-level public sector units in Uttar
Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu &
Kashmir.
The Consortium fixes uniform selling
prices ...
Management of seed enterprises: a point of view
(1990-09-29)
Effprts towards organizing seed production
have yielded positive though inadequate
results in terms of seed multiplication and
distribution. A wide gap still exists between
demand and supply in the seed industry in
India ...