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Marketing Efficiency of Green Peas under Different Supply Chains in Punjab
Sidhu, R.S.; Sidhu, M.S.; Singh, J.M. - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 24 (2011) 2
, in the village and in Apni Mandi. The marketing of green peas has been studied by three supply chains, viz. I: Producer â … efficient because its marketing efficiency was 14.83 as compared to 2.70 in supply chain II and 2.38 in supply chain I. The low … marketing efficiency in supply chain I was on account of a higher number of market intermediaries in this chain. The functional …
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Banking Sector Reforms and Co-operative Credit Institutions in Maharashtra: A Synthesis
Shah, Deepak - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 20 (2007) 2
The credit cooperatives in Maharashtra have shown slower growth in their membership and institutional financing. On the other hand, a faster growth has been observed in outstandings against loan advances. A lackadaisical attitude of Primary Agriculture Cooperative Credit Societies (PACS) has...
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Linking Farmers to Markets for High-Value Agricultural Commodities
Birthal, Pratap Singh; Jha, Awadhesh K.; Singh, Harvinder - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 20 (2007) 2007
marketing and transaction costs and alleviate some production constraints. Evidence has shown that smallholders do participate …
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Analysis of Spatial Cointegration amongst Major Wholesale Egg Markets in India
Saran, Sandeep; Gangwar, L.S. - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 21 (2008) 2
The performance of egg market has been studied through measurement of oneness in the egg markets. For this purpose, the Engle-Granger Cointegration test procedure has been applied to egg price series for major wholesale egg markets in the country, viz. Nammakal (Tamil Nadu), Calcutta, Chennai,...
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Dynamics of institutional agricultural credit and growth in Punjab: contribution and demand-supply gap
Sidhu, R.S.; Vatta, Kamal; Kaur, Arjinder - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 21 (2008) 2008
investments and agricultural growth. The study has revealed that supply of production credit doubled and that of investment credit … significant and positive impact of capital investments on productivity with elasticity of 1.02. Higher use of inputs was ushered … institutional credit in promoting use of modern production inputs and private capital investments has been found to be significantly …
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Whether commodity futures market in agriculture is efficient in price discovery? - An econometric analysis
Easwaran, R. Salvadi; Ramasundaram, P. - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 21 (2008) 2008
In any agriculture-dominated economy, like India, farmers face not only yield risk but price risk as well. Commodity futures and derivatives have a crucial role to play in the price risk management process, especially in agriculture. The present study is an investigation into the futures markets...
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Determinants of Women's Participation in Self-Help Group (SHG)-Led Microfinance Programme in Tamil Nadu
Anjugam, M.; Ramasamy, C. - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 20 (2007) 2
Factors determining participation of women in microfinance programme in Tamil Nadu have been identified following the multi-stage purposive and random sampling technique and selecting Coimbatore and Ramanathapuram districts for the study. It has been observed that socially backward, landless and...
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Rural credit delivery in India: structural constraints and some corrective measures
Satyasai, K.J.S. - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 21 (2008) 2008
In view of the importance of rural credit to agriculture and rural development, this paper has examined a few structural constraints that hamper the credit delivery and has discussed some of the measures taken to improve the situation. The public policy on rural credit in India has been focussed...
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Impact of Shelterbelts on Net Returns from Agricultural Production in Arid Western Rajasthan
Gajja, B.L.; Rajendra, Prasad; Mertia, R.S.; Chand, Khem; … - In: Agricultural Economics Research Review 21 (2008) 1
This paper has documented the impact of shelterbelt on agricultural returns by collecting primary data from 80 farmers each in shelterbelt and non-shelterbelt areas. To decompose the total change in net returns, separate production functions have been estimated for shelterbelt and...
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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 of major crops in Odisha. The growth analysis has shown a gloomy picture in the postreform era, as instability has augmented during this period, rendering the agricultural...
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