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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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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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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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Local Knowledge and Agricultural Sustainability: A Case Study of Pradhan Tribe in Adilabad District
K, Anil Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper presents some empirical data from the Pradhan Tribe of Andhra Pradesh which highlights the community's indigenous agricultural knowledge and the changes over time. These custodians of indigenous knowledge and world view practices play a very important role in agricultural development....
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Quality Perceptions of Private Label Brands Conceptual Framework and Agenda for Research
Koshy, Abraham; Abhishek, . - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper examines how retailers can influence the quality perceptions for private label brands by providing additional … information cues to the customers. The nature of additional information cues may have differential impact on quality perceptions …’s name and public quality label – to improve the quality perceptions of private label brands. Furthermore, the familiarity of …
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Addressing Agricultural Power Subsidy: A Case Study of North Gujarat
Joshi, Vidyut; Acharya, Akash - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper on the basis of fieldwork in the region of North Gujarat tries to analyze the perceptions among various …
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Becoming 'Hindu' and 'Muslim': Identity and Conflict in Malabar
Menon, Dilip M. - eSocialSciences - 2010
. While the first of these statements is an objective fact the latter two raises questions both of subjective perceptions and …
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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomised Experiments in India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Cole, Shawn; Linden, Leigh - eSocialSciences - 2006
to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
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