support farmers. It covered eight Kharif crops in 2017-18 and promised to pay the difference between their minimum support … traders and lower level mandi functionaries, and may end up helping them more than the farmers, despite best intentions of the … to extend to farmers. Therefore, wisdom lies in thinking rationally now, and support farmers through less distortionary …

Farmers, especially small and marginal, do not directly trade in agri-futures market in India. Their small size, lack … Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) is crucial in this context since they can procure commodities, aggregate them and ensure … necessity of having forward looking cropping patterns, where farmers' planting decisions are based on future prices rather than …

We analyse the impact of a junior farmer field school project in Northern Uganda on students’ agricultural knowledge … knowledge and food security. Overall, our results point to the importance of adapting the basic principles of farmer field …