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Analyzing Growth and Instability in Subsistence Agriculture of Odisha: Evidence from Major Crops
Paltasingh, Kirtti Ranjan; Goyari, Phanindra - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 26 (2013) 2013
The paper has analyzed the performance of agriculture in terms of growth and instability of yield, area and production …
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Energy Growth Linkage and Strategy for Meeting the Energy Demand in Indian Agriculture
Jha, Girish Kumar - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 26 (2013) 2013
in Indian agriculture will be double of the present consumption level (22 million tonnes of oil equivalent) for achieving …
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Dynamics of Labour Demand and its Determinants in Punjab Agriculture
Devi, Y. Latika; Singh, Jasdev; Vatta, Kamal; Kumar, Sanjay - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 26 (2013) 2
The study on dynamics of labour demand in Punjab agriculture has revealed that between 1985-86 and 2006-07, the per … displacement of human labour by machines and also due to rising wage rates. The elasticity of labour use in agriculture has fallen … drastically during the past two decades indicating little potential for absorption of additional labour in agriculture. …
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Agricultural Price Forecasting Using Neural Network Model: An Innovative Information Delivery System
Jha, Girish K.; Sinha, Kanchan - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 26 (2013) 2
Forecasts of food prices are intended to be useful for farmers, policymakers and agribusiness industries. In the … present era of globalization, management of food security in the agriculture-dominated developing countries like India needs …
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Farmers’ Vulnerability to Rainfall Variability and Technology Adoption in Rain-fed Tank Irrigated Agriculture
Ashok, K.R.; Sasikala, C. - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 25 (2012) 2
determinants of technology adoption in the rain-fed tank irrigated agriculture. Tank performance has been evaluated through … technologies in agriculture. …
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Measuring Weather Impact on Crop Yield Using Aridity Index: Evidence from Odisha
Paltasingh, Kirtti Ranjan; Goyari, Phanindra; Mishra, R.K. - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 25 (2012) 2
incorporated in the model as increasing monotonic functions of yield. With evidences from Odisha, where agriculture is rainfed and … agriculture on rainfall in Odisha has declined slightly possibly because of the developments in irrigation and other facilities. …
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Food and Nutritional Security in Bangladesh: Going beyond Carbohydrate Counts
Bose, Manik Lal; Dey, Madan Mohan - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 20 (2007) 2
The progress towards achieving household nutritional food-security in Bangladesh has remained slow. So far the food security is cereal-based (mainly rice) and food basket has not yet diversified towards high nutritive/ quality food. This article has examined the expenditure inequalities in the...
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Food and Nutritional Insecurity and its Determinants in Food Surplus Areas: The Case Study of Punjab State
Sidhu, R.S.; Kaur, Inderpreet; Vatta, Kamal - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 21 (2008) 1
The incidence and depth of food and nutritional insecurity has been estimated and its determinants in a food-surplus area, viz. the state of Punjab, have been studied. The consumption expenditure has been found to be directly associated with the levels of income/assets in both rural and urban...
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Impact of Grain Legume (Groundnut) on Energy and Nutritional Levels of Tribal Farm Households in Koraput (Orissa)
Govindaraj, G.; Basu, M.S.; Barik, N.C. - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 21 (2008) 1
The introduction of groundnut through the support of IFAD & ICRISAT in the tribal areas of Koraput in Orissa has been able to supplement the nutritional levels of farm households in the area. The protein intake due to groundnut consumption has been found to be around 20 per cent in the IFAD...
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