Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Development of India’s Commodity Futures Markets -- Chapter 3: Literature on Farmers’ Participation in Futures -- Chapter 4: Futures Market Efficiency in Price Discovery and Dissemination -- Chapter 5: Field Survey, Observation and Farmer Profile --...

Rice is India’s number one foodgrain and is crucial to its food security. Raising its production with increasing demand and escalating commodity prices is a major challenge. The promising hybrid rice technology, despite its success in neighboring China and Bangladesh, has faced serious...

The study examines the nature and performance of watershed development institutions in India. Improving productivity and incomes in rainfed areas, which have much poverty, is a major challenge in India, and a huge initiative through which this is pursued is Watershed Development (WSD) programs...

The effective management of natural resources is increasingly critical for growth and development in India. The research examines the nature and impact of the interaction between formal and informal institutional structures in the rural areas in the context of the implementation of the major...

1. Introduction and objectives of the study -- 2. An overview of cotton in India -- 3. Development and adoption of Bt Cotton -- 4.Sampling and methodology of the study across the states -- 5. Nature and performance of Bt Cotton vs. non-Bt Cotton -- 6. Economics of Bt Cotton vs. non-Bt Cotton...

Information on brand-variety performance is critical for small farmers in India since every year they need to make crucial decisions on which brand-variety seeds to plant. The livelihoods from their small farms and returns on all the inputs used depend critically on this decision. Yet no...

The effective management of water resources is assuming enormous importance in India in the recent years. Sound water resource use is crucial for sustaining and raising food production, increasing rural incomes, alleviating poverty, and meeting drinking water as well as other human and...