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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 ...
Frontier technologies in agriculture biotechnology: the promise and performance of BT cotton in India - summary
(Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics/, 2012)
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...