. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone …Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised … agriculture in the past, be they developed countries like the United States of America or countries in the European Union or Japan …

, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean … energy in India in the next six years. In a country that generates more than 60 percent of its power by burning coal, and … country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set …

The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …

Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to … the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations … timing of El Niño developments in a year and its relation with monsoon rains. We construct an India specific El Niño (ISEL …

golden opportunity to change the face of UP's agriculture and thus the fate of millions that depend on it. UP with a … population of more than 220 million is the most populous state of India. As per Census 2011, 59 percent of its workforce was … engaged in agriculture; average holding size was just 0.76 ha with 92 percent of holdings being small and marginal; and 29 …

. Agriculture growth was around 4.7 per cent, which was above the national average of 3.6 per cent and in the latest five years, its … performance was even more commendable, with an average annual growth rate of 7.1 per cent. However, agriculture productivity of … in yield augmenting inputs such as fertilisers, certified seeds, tube wells and farm machines. Bihar's agriculture has …

agriculture. During the five years from 2010-11 to 2014-15, the contribution of agriculture to the state GDP recorded an annual … average growth of a mere 0.9 per cent. This paper studies the composition, sources and potential drivers of agriculture growth …

Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the … irrigation water available in the country. Hence if sustainable agriculture water-use has to be ensured, economics (productivity … scarcity and economic value of water and power use in agriculture, while improving the quality and timely availability of these …

per annum, which is the highest growth rate registered in agriculture by any major state of India over a ten year period … a lesson worth learning for many states of India who are struggling to get their agriculture moving. In this paper, we …Agriculture growth in Madhya Pradesh (MP) during the decade long period of 2005-06 to 2014-15 was around 9.7 per cent …