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Global Crisis, Environment Volatility and Expansion of Tthe Indian Leather Industry
Bhandari, Anup Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present paper attempts to fill in the gap that exists in the Indian Leather industry, and makes some suggestions regarding the expansion of the by examining technical efficiency (TE) of individual leather producing firms for some selected years since the early-1980s. Analyzing the...
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Promoting Sustainable Agriculture: Experiences from India and Canada
Shah, Amita; S, Puttaswamaiah; Manns, Ian - eSocialSciences - 2009
Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven by Green Revolution technology, has made a significant dent on aggregate supply of food grains, ensuring food security to the growing population. The next stage of agricultural...
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India in the Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms’ Decision to Export
Srinivasan, T.N.; Archana, Vani - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et...
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Economics and Efficiency of Organic Farming vis-à-vis Conventional Farming in India
Charyulu, D. Kumara; Biswas, Subho - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present paper focuses mainly on the issues like economics and efficiency of organic farming visà- vis conventional farming in India. Four states namely Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab and U.P were purposively selected for the present study. Similarly, four major crops i.e., cotton, sugarcane,...
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Does Organic Agriculture Lead to Better Health among Organic and Conventional Farmers in Thailand? An Investigation of Health Expenditure among Organic and Conventional Farmers in...
Setboonsarng, Sunantar; Lavado, Rouselle F. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of organic and conventional rice-farming households in North and Northeast Thailand is done. Using...
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Impact of Organic Farming on Economics of Sugarcane Cultivation in Maharashtra
G, Kshirsagar K - eSocialSciences - 2008
The primary goal of this paper is to examine the impact of organic farming on economics of sugarcane cultivation in Maharashtra. The study is based on primary data collected from two districts covering 142 farmers, 72 growing Organic Sugarcane (OS) and 70 growing Inorganic Sugarcane (IS) in...
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Andhra Pradesh State Policy on Organic Farming
eSocialSciences - 2008
The objectives of the policy on organic farming, the strategies of the policy are explained here.
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Are Embankments a Good Flood-­-Control Strategy? A Case Study of the Kosi River
Somanathan, E - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper makes a first pass at evaluating embankments. Using two years or more of data from 504 households in 28 villages in the floodplain of the Kosi river in north Bihar, a comparison of the agricultural output, wage incomes, unemployment, and other indicators of well-being between villages...
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Monetary Incentives to Reduce Open-Field Rice-Straw Burning in the Plains of Nepal
Pant, Krishna Prasad - eSocialSciences - 2014
In southern Nepal, rice straw burning in open fields is common practice. This is problematic because biomass burning …
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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low …-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three successive rounds of the Nepal LSMS corresponding to 1995, 2003 and 2010, while other … is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010.[BREAD …
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