Rural indebtedness and dependence on private moneylenders is an age-old problem in India. For more than 100 years now …, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural … to answer the question, "Is the agenda of expansion of institutional finance to agriculture unfinished?" The findings in …

, 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 …

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 …