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Marketing of fruits and vegetables in India: a study covering the Ahmedabad, Chennai and kolkata markets
(2010-07-22)
There has been concern in recent years regarding the efficiency of marketing of fruits
and vegetables, and that this is leading to high and fluctuating consumer prices and only a
small share of the consumer rupee reaching ...
Cooperative rural banking: Anad shows the growth - Oriented path
(2010-03-31)
This paper is about how Anand Farmers Service Cooperative Bank could be successful under the same macro rural credit policies that governed most rural financial institutions. This bank is innovative in both the spirit of ...
Comparative performance of farmers service societies and primary agricultural cooperative credit societies
(2010-07-27)
This paper analyses performance of Farmers' Service Societies (FSS) and Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS) comparatively. Features of these two field-level rural financial institutions (RFIs) are ...
Performance of institutional finance for agricultural development
(2010-03-22)
This paper analyses the performance of rural institutional finance system and based on that draw implication for improving this performance. Section II provides a conceptualization of performance criteria. Section III ...
Development of food-processing industries
(2010-03-22)
The paper has analysed development and financial, with special reference to working capital management, performance of the selected food-processing industries. It prioritizes these industries for their development based ...
Policy strategy and instruments for alleviating rural poverty
(2010-04-01)
The paper departs from the present policy emphasis for and more recent literature on rural poverty in advocating six major conclusions based on its validation of a multi-variate model explaining the behaviour of this poverty ...
Determinants of total factor productivity in Indian agriculture
(2010-04-03)
Past literature shows that technical change in agriculture is determined by non-price like government expenditure on R&D and infrastructure. But more recent literature also considers relative farm prices that would provide ...
Determinants of growth in rice productivity in India, 1980-95
(2010-04-01)
This paper analyses various price and non-price factors that induce rice productivity during 1980-95 using a multi-variate model. This is studied separately for states where rice is a multi-season crop and mono-season crop. ...
Groundwater Irrigation in India: Gains, Costs and Risks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in recent years. It has become the main source of growth in irrigated area over the past three decades, and now accounts ...
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing and its Efficiency in India: A Study of Wholesale Markets in the Ahmedabad Area
(2009-09-02)
There has been concern in the recent years regarding the efficiency of marketing of fruits and vegetables in India. It is believed that poor efficiency in the marketing channels and poor marketing infrastructure is leading ...