Browsing Working Papers by Author "Namboodiri, N. V."
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The Adoption and Economics of Bt Cotton in India: Preliminary Results from a Study
Gandhi, Vasant P.; Namboodiri, N. V. (2009-08-13)The paper presents preliminary results from a study of the economics and adoption of Bt cotton in India. Biotech crops, which made their appearance in the world about a decade ago, have gained substantial popularity and ... -
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 ... -
The Deceleration Hypothesis and yield increasing inputs in Indian Agriculture
Desai, Gunvant M.; Namboodiri, N. V. (2012-09-27) -
Determinants of growth in rice productivity in India, 1980-95
Namboodiri, N. V. (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. ... -
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 ... -
Economies of scale and scope of district central co-operative banks
Namboodiri, N. V. (2010-01-16)The paper is divided into 6 sections. Section 2 briefly reviews the application of various methodologies in examining the cost attributes of multi product banking firms. Section e describes the methodology employed and the ... -
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing and its Efficiency in India: A Study of Wholesale Markets in the Ahmedabad Area
Gandhi, Vasant P.; Namboodiri, N. V. (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 ... -
Groundwater Irrigation in India: Gains, Costs and Risks
Gandhi, Vasant P.; Namboodiri, N. V. (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 ... -
Marketing of fruits and vegetables in India: a study covering the Ahmedabad, Chennai and kolkata markets
Gandhi, Vasant P.; Namboodiri, N. V. (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 ... -
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 ... -
Technical change and market price effects on income distribution in Indian rice economy
Namboodiri, N. V. (2009-12-12)The study suggests that while non-product price policies encouraging technical change and market infrastructure development would be beneficial to both PCC and NPC, the rice price support would be needed once technical ...