Browsing Working Papers by Author "Desai, Bhupat M."
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Catalysing Indian agriculture
Desai, Bhupat M. (2009-12-12)This somewhat non-technical and brief paper synthesizes the literature on what to catalyse for the Strategy for agriculture and how to accomplish this strategy through public policies for government expenditure, reorganization ... -
Comparative performance of farmers service societies and primary agricultural cooperative credit societies
Desai, Bhupat M.; Namboodiri, N. V. (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 ... -
Cooperative rural banking: Anad shows the growth - Oriented path
Desai, Bhupat M.; Namboodiri, N. V. (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 ... -
Costs of operations in agricultural financing by formal agencies
Desai, Bhupat M. (2010-03-12)The purpose of this paper is to first briefly discuss the main elements of costs in agricultural finance operations of formal agencies. Secondly, the sources of high administrative costs are identified. And finally a ... -
Delivery of credit to rural poor
Desai, Bhupat M. (2010-07-27)Four questions that are raised in this paper are: (1) Why is it necessary to reserve formal credit for rural poor? (2) Is credit a constraint on increasing production and incomes of the rural poor? (3) Is existing credit ... -
Determinants of total factor productivity in Indian agriculture
Desai, Bhupat M.; Namboodiri, N. V. (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 ... -
Development of food-processing industries
Desai, Bhupat M.; Namboodiri, N. V. (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 ... -
Formal vis-a-vis informal credit supply sources in tribal areas: a case of Dharampur taluka
Desai, Bhupat M. (2010-03-13)This paper first discusses the main features and operations of both the sources of credit supply in Dharampur. It then presents a framework that conceptualizes the substitution process from the standpoint of the inhabitants ... -
Functions and role of institutional finance for agricultural and rural development
Desai, Bhupat M. (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 ... -
Initiatives in rural credit policies under new economic environment
Desai, Bhupat M. (2010-07-26)Initiatives in rural credit policies pertain to two instruments. These are institutional development and interest rates. Some of these initiatives are right for both these instruments, while some others are not. Former for ... -
Institutional credit for green revolution and dry-farming areas in India
Desai, Bhupat M.; Gupta, V. K.; Singh, Gurdev (2010-03-21)This paper examines the relationship between the degree of agricultural progress and institutional credit. More specifically it examines the relationship between the proportion of area covered under HYVs of foodgrains and ... -
Performance of institutional finance for agricultural development
Desai, Bhupat M.; Namboodiri, N. V. (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 ... -
Policy strategy and instruments for alleviating rural poverty
Desai, Bhupat M.; Namboodiri, N. V. (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 ... -
Production and Marketing problems of villagers in various Asian countries
Desai, Bhupat M. (2010-07-22)The paper discusses technical, institutional and economic aspects of the Production and Marketing problems of Asian villagers. It argues that these aspects are manifestations of the structural deficiencies associated with ... -
Professionalism in co-operatives for rural credit
Desai, Bhupat M. (2009-12-12)This paper deals with professionalism required in rural credit cooperative as business enterprise and also as an institution of its members in addition to that in formulation and implementation of macro rural cooperative ... -
Profile and performance of some Farm Input Industries
Desai, Bhupat M.; Parmar, D. S. (2009-12-14)Modernisation of agriculture requires different farm inputs industries like seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, implements and machinery, feed for livestocks and electricity. This is because new technologies in agriculture are ... -
Project formulation and implementation: a framework for a rural credit project
Desai, Bhupat M. (2010-03-14)This paper outlines a possible framework for credit project formulation and implementation exercise. For this purpose we have abstracted from the present realities and experiences of project approach of rural financing as ... -
Recent policies for rural banking by commercial banks
Desai, Bhupat M. (2010-03-29)This paper discusses three recent policy changes for rural banking by the commercial banks. It first discusses likely impact of these policy changes. It then presents rationale for promoting rural banking infrastructure. ... -
Relationship of consumption and production in changing agriculture, a study in Surat District, India - a summary
Desai, Bhupat M. (2010-03-13)This is a summary of the study entitled Relationship of Consumption and Production in Changing Agricultural: A Study in Surat District, India published in the occasional paper series of the Technological Change in ... -
Theoretical and policy making contributions of research on agricultural economics: a success or failure or neither?
Desai, Bhupat M. (2009-12-14)This paper discusses following five issues by briefly considering the historical context of agriculture, innate biological nature of production process in agriculture, and initial conditions that agriculture inherited at ...