About forty lakh hectare of land is under cotton cultivation in Maharashtra. Once known as the prosperous cotton …-belt; today the irony is that the state tops the list when it comes to suicides by farmers. Further, almost all of them are cotton … farmers mostly from Vidarbha. At present, Vidarbha produces two quintals of cotton per acre, against the national average of …

productivity in India. The current paper is an attempt to understand the various regulatory provisions and subsidies which affect …

relatively low level of crop diversification in Odisha agriculture. Second, there is an insignificant agricultural transition due … transition from traditional to high-value modern agriculture in Eastern India, causing unsustainable farm income growth. This …

Indian agriculture is getting increasingly commercialized and monetized and the volume and proportion of output that …. Application of water saving technologies can raise the productivity of water in agriculture by two, three or four times its … present level, resulting in higher yields, greater production, higher incomes and more jobs. While commercializing agriculture …

This study has critically examined the issue of Cotton subsidies in USA as well made a comparative analysis of cotton …-distorting subsidies of USA but was on account of upward trend in cotton production in India and China in defiance of market signals. This … sector between USA and India in the background of USA claim that African Cotton producers' plight was not due to the trade …

target. Indian agriculture needs a relook with a special focus on farm income through productivity/efficiency enhancement …