. Despite shortages of water, its misuse is widespread, be it in small communities or large cities, farmers or industries …

farmers’. Hence, there is need to develop “need-based” capacity building of small-scale men and women farmers, as well as … reaching small-scale and marginal farmers. The present study tries to analyze the role played by public sector institutions in …

are presented below. Upstream. First, potato production in Bihar is largely in the hands of smallholders: farmers from the … smallest half of potato producers cultivate 0.5 acres of potato. This compares to 1.8 acres for farmers from the largest group …. Second, farmers suffer from an important late blight disease problem. Actual potato yields in 2009 were two-thirds lower than …

Livestock production, especially dairy, has long been an important activity for smallholder and resource-poor farmers … water–become scarcer. Fodder scarcity affects most farmers but is particularly acute for landless and those with access to … farmers are smallholders having one or two local-breed milch animals, which are raised on crop residues and natural pastures …

Bihar farmers and policy-makers should learn from the experience of West Bengal in order to get some hints for the …

Dairy farmers in Bihar are mostly smallholders having one or two local-bred milch animals, which are raised on crop …

. Wealthier farmers participate more directly and relatively more in cold storages, especially towards the commercialization of … potatoes. Small farmers benefit relatively more indirectly, i.e. through the higher prices in the harvest period, as well … markets from these cold storages that especially the smaller farmers might benefit from. …