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, 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 …
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Farmers, especially small and marginal, do not directly trade in agri-futures market in India. Their small size, lack …
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population of more than 220 million is the most populous state of India. As per Census 2011, 59 percent of its workforce was …
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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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and Korea, or now emerging economies like China and India. The type of support, of course, varies widely across countries …. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone … and a sizeable portion of budgetary support goes towards fertiliser subsidy. Fertiliser subsidy in India has succeeded in …
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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 …
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The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all …
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Farmers in India are exposed to large agriculture risks due to vagaries of nature. One of the most effective mechanisms … Solution (CBS) and crop insurance is need of the hour giving information on real time basis. India's prowess in Information …
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With increasing farm distress in the wake of falling farm prices in 2017, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh (GoMP) came out with an innovative scheme called Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana (BBY), a price deficiency payment (PDP) scheme, to support farmers. It covered eight Kharif crops in 2017-18...
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Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the country. Yet, more than half of the gross cropped area is still dependent on rains. Extremely skewed allocation of scarce irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the...
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