The growth of agricultural implements used in Gujarat was examined on the basis of Livestock Census data of 1951, 56, 61, 66, 72. The total power now available on Gujarat farms comes to 0.6 hp/hect; if pumping sets are ...

This paper focuses on the rates of growth of total net national product (NNP) and NNP originating from the agricultural sector vis-a-vis the non-agricultural sector. It is based on time series of NNP at 1960-61 prices for ...

This paper surveys the voluminous literature on energy price impacts studies; both types of impacts and techniques used to estimate them are reviewed in detail. Different types of energy price impacts are classified into ...

This paper discusses the concept of controlled environment agriculture which may be necessary to bring arid areas like Kutch under production.

Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of ...

Communities living close to nature invariably evolve a language to understand and interpret the variations and discontinuities in nature. A flower of new colour, an unusually tall plant, an unseasonal germination or an ...

A large body of empirical literature highlights the need for stakeholder participation within the context of policy change and democratic governance. This makes intuitive sense and may appear to be a straightforward process ...

Indian agriculture is under policy reforms for some time now. One of the issues it faces is that of lack of viability of smaliholdings and lack of international competitiveness of its produce. In this regard, new initiatives ...

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 ...