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Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
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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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because their traditional ‘slash and burn’ agriculture is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Farmers in these … cultivation in the hill district of Khagrachari with settled agriculture and new soil conservation techniques based around orchard …
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The paper disuses and analyzes the condition of cotton farmers of Andra Pradesh and the reasons for their committing suicides.
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Extension of the wealth tax to agriculture, it will be recalled, was opposed on the ground that it would hurt even the …
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In Nepal, agriculture is commercializing day by day and levels of agro-chemical use are growing. This is beginning to …
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The paper examines the prevailing situation of Bt cotton marketing in India. It tells a story of how aggressive and unethical marketing practices are adopted for luring faemers into the Bt cotton trap in India.
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-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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It is argued that Indian agriculture is undergoing fundamental change wherein the technology and inputs are moving out … created a near-crisis in agriculture. The policy interventions have to be necessarily patient and holistic [IIMA WP]. …
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Agriculture as a source of growth was sorely neglected in the early development strategies of the currently developing … countries. Realisation of this shortcoming prompted public policy in these countries to encourage agriculture by various means … pertaining to Indian agriculture for the period 1967-68/1999-00, covering 7 major 'annual' cash crops cultivated across 16 major …
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