As part of the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), a makhana value chain study was organized in Bihar, in collaboration between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in Patna, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International Food Policy...

Introduction. As part of the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), a potato value chain study was organized in Bihar, in collaboration between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in Patna, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International...

Local brands are rapidly emerging in food retail in Asia. However, it is not well understood what impact they have in domestic food markets. In a detailed case study of makhana in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, we see the fast emergence - a doubling over five years leading to a share...

The Indian government has provided large subsidies to stimulate the take-off of the cold storage sector. However, the impact of this policy is not well understood. In a case study of the potato sector in Bihar, we find that there have been dramatic increases and rapid up-scaling of cold...

Local brands are rapidly emerging in food retail in Asia. However, it is not well understood what impact they have in domestic food markets. In a detailed case study of makhana in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, we see the fast emergence - a doubling over five years leading to a share...

The self-employment programme of Self Help Groups (SHGs) formed under Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) guide lines, is mainly concentrated on the inputs, rather than the outputs, and their marketing. To study the marketing practices of livestock products by SHGs the data was collected...

With growing number of organizations offering wide range of choices across the industry made today's market more competitive than ever before. Fueled with LPG (Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization), the entry of multinationals encouraged the domestic organizations to move from...

Every human being is born with a set of perpetual needs, the satisfaction of each of which leads to a higher level need. All these needs culminate at the most demanding need of self-actualization. If a product or brand fulfills this desire of a person, the customer becomes a core loyal to that...

Apparel industry in India is booming and there is fierce competition among various players in apparel segment in terms of lifestyle format. The study is aimed to find out impact of various dimensions of visual merchandising on impulse buying behavior of the customers visiting “Central...

This paper tries to examine the relationship between monetary policy and output growth in India and found that monetary policy is more successful in USA while more money is chasing few goods in India relative to USA. Since this work is not done by anybody else, comparison of results is not needed