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Total Factor Productivity in Indian Agriculture: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Saikia, Dilip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The productivity growth in agriculture is both a necessary and sufficient condition for the development of the sector as well as the economy. This paper has reviewed the different methodologies of measuring the total factor productivity (TFP) and focused on some of the important issues such as...
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Wholesale Milk Markets: A Study of Market Integration in Indian Markets
Jha, A.K.; Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Market integration is an important determinant of responsiveness and behavior of the markets needed to formulate price policies. Indian wholesale milk markets are correlated with varying degrees of integration. Paper uses monthly wholesale prices of milk for the period from April 1997 to...
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Lentil in India: An Overview
Singh, K.M.; Singh, A. K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
high- yielding varieties of rice (Oryza sativa) and wheat (Tritium aestivum). Lentil production in India has always been … important as it is the one of the most important rabi crops in the country. In fact, India was the largest producer of the … Lentil crop in the world until recently Canada took over the lead leaving India at the second place. The new technology of …
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Challenges Ahead of Ailing Indian Agriculture
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper takes stock of the state of agriculture in India, brings out with the stylised facts, issues and emerging …
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On the Implications of Contract Farming on Agricultural and Rural Development in India : With Special Reference to Karanataka, India
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Veslawatha, Suresh Naik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The present paper examines the rationale for the introduction of contract farming in Indian context and advantages and disadvantages it draws with reference to rural and agricultural development where particular emphasis is given to marginal and small farmers. It is also looking into what are...
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The makhana value chain and the fast emergence of branding in food retail: Evidence from Bihar (India)
Minten, Bart; Singh, K.M.; Sutradhar, Rajib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
. Brands in this setting in India thus seemingly have little function except the packing function and signal little credible …
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Does Selection in Insurance Markets Always Favor Buyers?
Deryugina, Tatyana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper provides empirical evidence of advantageous selection in insurance markets. By using a novel insurance setting where moral hazard is not a concern, I am able to overcome an important obstacle in most studies of selection: the inability to distinguish moral hazard from selection. In...
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Food security: status and concerns of India
Kumar, Rajesh; Bagaria, Nidhi; Santra, Swarup - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
ambitious Food Security Bill in Sep, 2013 by UPA government in India to provide the basic food staples at highly subsidized … prices aimed at ensuring the economic access to food for around two-third of its population coupled with India’s obligations … of agriculture trade liberalization as a WTO member, exposes how liberalization of agriculture trade can affect India …
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Agriculture and economic security of Russia: retrospective research
Fyodorov, Mikhail; Kuzmin, Evgeny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The article is focused on problems of economic security of Russia from prospective of trade and production relations in the sector of food commodities that form the nation’s food provision. It also provides a method of identification whether the economic conditions are safe or dangerous tested...
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Climate change effects and agriculture in Italy: a stochastic frontier analysis at regional level
Auci, Sabrina; Vignani, Donatella - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Climate changes, associated to atmospheric accumulation of greenhouse gases, could alter level of temperature at the surface, rainfalls and regional water supplies. There are many areas of the Earth that will cope with a rapid increasing of warming at the surface and with an extremization of...
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