Major pulse crops grown in India include gram, red gram, black gram, green gram, field pea and lentil. Pulses constitute an important part of diet for majority of Indians. Pulses production has been stagnated between 11 to 15 million tonnes in the last decade, while the requirement pulses is...

Sugar and cane prices in India are highly regulated, as a result free market prices in India are showing rising trend with high volatility. There is a possibility of long run shortage of sugar in international markets due to diversion of cane to produce ethanol and also reduction of domestic...

The paper examines the determinants of workforce structure with respect to status and sector. It develops multinomial regression by using National Sample Survey Organisations (NSSO) household survey data to analyse factors that influence types of employment of workers in rural Andhra Pradesh....

The paper studies regional difference in employment, unemployment and income in Andhra Pradesh, in the backdrop of demand for separate state of Telangana. The empirical results are based on unit survey data of rural households of Andhra Pradesh based on employment and unemployment surveys...

The credit delivery system in India comprises both formal and informal institutions. The formal system comprises commercial banks, regional rural banks and cooperatives, while the predominant informal sources of credit are commission agents, traders, friends and relatives, chit funds and more...

One of the central problems of groundnut production and processing sectors are huge inefficiencies due to uncertain production environment owing to rainfed cultivation, less resource base of smallholder farmers and processors, and low adoption rate of improved technology. This policy brief...

Andhra Pradesh (AP) is one of the largest states in India, with agriculture providing the major source of income for about 60 per cent of the population even though it contributes only 19 per cent state GDP. In the last 40 years, annual growth rate of agriculture is 2.88 per cent as against...

The paper reviews the supply and demand situation of grain legumes (pulses and oilseeds with special reference to groundnut) and suggests strategies to decrease mismatch between supply and demand. If the current trends of production and demand continue, the likely deficit of grain legumes (both...

Unregulated growth of microfinance institutions The microfinance industry is growing at a faster rate in recent years with about 62% per annum in terms of numbers of borrowers and 88% per annum in terms of credit over the past five years. India had the world's largest microfinance market by...