Improving productivity and incomes in rainfed areas is a major challenge in India, and a key to achieving this is … pursued in India is Watershed Development (WSD) programs which have been taken up under different schemes funded by the … Government of India and the state governments. Since poverty is particularly acute in the rainfed areas, large expenditures to …

Agro-industries are given high priority in India particularly because of their great potential for contributing to … development. The emphasis on village-based agro-industries was introduced almost a century ago in India by Mahatma Gandhi as an … innovations and institutional models have emerged in India. These include the HPMC model, the AMUL model, the Pepsi model, the E …