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Tamil Nadu Budget Speech: 2012-13
Government, Tamil Nadu - eSocialSciences - 2012
Speech of Thiru O. Panneerselvam, Hon’ble Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for the year 2012-2013 to the Legislative Assembly on 26th March, 2012. [Government of Tamil Nadu]. URL:[http://www.tn.gov.in/budget/budgetspeech_e_2012_2013.pdf].
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Report of the Task Force on Plantations Sector
Commerce, Ministry of; GOI, Industry - eSocialSciences - 2011
Today there is no credible alternative facility available to a grower to meet the risks of price movements and the art of price risk management is unknown to the small growers. (In this entire report, the Task Force designates a grower upto 10ha of holding plantation land as a small grower). To...
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Report of the Task Force on Credit Related Issues of Farmers
eSocialSciences; National Bank for Agriculture and … - 2011
The Task Force visited 45 villages across 17 states and held state and regional level consultations to understand from women and men farmers, bankers, civil society, academicians, planners, activists, money lenders (both new and old) what the issues were and what now needs to be done to ensure...
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Local Knowledge and Agricultural Sustainability: A Case Study of Pradhan Tribe in Adilabad District
K, Anil Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2011
Pradhans are still subsistence farmers, who primarily depend on agriculture. Subsistence economy and food security of the …
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Draft National Food Security Bill: Explanatory Note
eSocialSciences; National Advisory Council NAC - 2011
This Explanatory Note highlights the rationale and major considerations that form the basis of the NAC proposals on food security. It supplements (i) the NAC recommendations on food security released on 23 October 2010; and (ii) the NAC Framework Note on the Draft National Food Security Bill...
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Suicides by Cotton Farmers in Andhra Pradesh
Joseph, Reji K - eSocialSciences - 2007
The paper disuses and analyzes the condition of cotton farmers of Andra Pradesh and the reasons for their committing suicides.
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Agricultural Credit - Accomplishments and Challenges
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2012
population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There are many schemes taken by NABARD to …
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Small Farmers in India: Challenges and Opportunities
Dev, S. Mahendra - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper examines the roles and challenges of small holding agriculture in India. It covers trends in agricultural … growth, cultivation patterns, participation of small holding agriculture, productivity performance of small holders, linking … holding agriculture including information needs. It also provides lessons from the experience of India on small holding …
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The Role of Mineral Fertilizers in Transforming Philippine Agriculture
Briones, Roehlano M. - eSocialSciences - 2014
Fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the 1970s to today's market-oriented regime. Government has abandoned price policies and subsidies, focusing rather on standard-setting, quality regulation, and training. Over the same period domestic demand for...
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WTO Agreements and Indian Agriculture: Retrospection and Prospects
Deodhar, Satish Y - eSocialSciences - 2007
-negotiation on Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) will also begin. It is time to take a retrospective look at what were the expected … the predictions of various macro-models about the gains to Indian agriculture and farmer were not unequivocal, their … structure, improvement in the terms-of-trade for Indian agriculture may be very limited. Whatever little improvement in terms …
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