A segment of bulk export opportunities is generated by international funding agencies such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The share of Indian business in these opportunities, however, has been rather low. With a view to increasing the preparedness of Indian business in bulk...

An agro-industry is an enterprise that processes bio-mass, i.e. agricultural raw materials, which include ground and tree crops as well as livestock and fisheries, to create edible or usable forms, improve storage and shelf life, create easily transportable forms, enhance nutritive value, and...

The National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) was established on 12th July 1982 by an Act of Parliament and it has been given the mandate to provide “credit for the promotion of agriculture, small scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural...

This paper views the exercise contained in the Final Fifth Five Year Plan (of India) as a response of the planners for the revision of the Draft Fifth Five Year Plan due to several changes in the environment both within India and in the International economy during the first two-and-a-half years...

This paper attempts to highlight the growth of the pesticides industry, changes in the product mix, market concentration, flow of materials, problems of various constituents and the emerging marketing scenario. The Pesticides Industry has grown by 7.6% during the last 20 years. It has also...

This paper examines the issues raised by Baba Amte (India Express July 9, 1989) on Narmada Project. His contention is that Narmada project requires a complete reconsideration because its costs in terms of human suffering, ecological damage and financial burden are just too high for Gujarat. The...

The Dutt Committee suggested that when public sector financial assistance in any significant scale is provided, the project should necessarily treated as belonging to ‘joint sector’ with proper representation for the state. It also suggested that to bring about the concept of ‘joint...

The main objective of this study was to examine the factors which compel the poor to pay more than the better off sections of the society for the goods they buy. The study revealed that the poor end up paying more prices because they buy essential commodities in small quantities daily or twice a...

Minor Irrigation Schemes such as the construction of dug wells, dug-cum-bore wells and tube wells form a substantial part of irrigation development in the Fifth Plan. The importance of these schemes can be understood from the fact that six million hectares are to be covered by minor irrigation...

In the light of various findings relating to future energy scene in India, the development of new and renewable energy sources have been given substantial emphasis in the Sixth Plan. Some evidence from field level experience of a few of these technologies has become available through micro...