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Growth and instability in Gujarat agriculture
(2010-03-13)
The agricultural development strategy followed in India during various Five Year Plans laid emphasis on achieving growth and stability in agricultural production and equity in distribution of grains from increased production ...
South Asian experience in agricultural mechanization
(2010-03-13)
A remarkable feature of economic growth in South Asia during the last decade or so, is the emergence of agriculture as a buoyant sector. This is accompanied with popularization of machine power or the farms. An interesting ...
Fertilisers in India's agricultural development, problems and policies
(2010-03-13)
The importance of fertilizer in agricultural production has increased substantially in the last 25 years. The current level of its use, however, is insufficient to arrest depletion of soil fertility. Under our circumstances ...
Functions and role of institutional finance for agricultural and rural development
(2010-03-24)
This paper demonstrates that Institutional finance must play a multi-functional role to fulfil its three-fold objectives of promoting (a) growth, (b) better equity, and (c) its own viability/profitability for agricultural ...
Support systems for agricultural development in sub-saharan Africa
(2010-03-14)
Poor agricultural growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is sometimes attributed to the absence of major technological breakthrough. It must be recognized that there is enough scope to raise agricultural production under the prevailing ...
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 ...
Agricultural development through community action: scope and limitations
(2010-03-14)
The purpose of this paper is to generate discussion on certain basic issues pertaining scope and limitations of community actions for agricultural development. For this purpose a sociological-historical-cultural approach ...