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Price Incentives, Nonprice factors, and Crop Supply Response: The Indian Cash Crops
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2007
Agriculture as a source of growth was sorely neglected in the early development strategies of the currently developing … countries. Realisation of this shortcoming prompted public policy in these countries to encourage agriculture by various means … pertaining to Indian agriculture for the period 1967-68/1999-00, covering 7 major 'annual' cash crops cultivated across 16 major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528277
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Innovative Indo-US Collaborations – Missed Opportunities
Prasad, C. Shambu - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper analyzes the situation of the Indo US Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, by using the science studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528278
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Transaction Costs and Institutional Innovation: Sustainability of Tank Aquaculture in Sri Lanka
Senaratne, Athula - eSocialSciences - 2007
Freshwater community-based aquaculture was introduce to village irrigation tanks in the dry zones of Sri Lanka in order to off-set the limited supply of animal protein available to residents in inland areas. This paper examines transaction costs associated with the management of community-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528293
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Volatality of Agricultural Prices – An Analysis of Major International and Domestic Markets
Sekhar, C S C - eSocialSciences - 2007
agriculture, which has implications for the entire economy, it is essential to study the volatility patterns in international and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528295
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Lease Farming in Kerala: Findings From Micro Level Studies
Menon, Vineetha; Nair, K.N. - eSocialSciences - 2007
Land Reforms Act in Kerala rendered tenancy invalid and prohibited the creation of future tenancies in the State, but tenancy very much exists. It is a consequence of the simultaneous increase in two categories of people, “those who have land but unable to cultivate’ and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528314
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System of Rice Intensification in India: Innovation History and Institutional Challenges
Prasad, C. Shambu - eSocialSciences - 2006
This report documents the history of the systems of rice intensification (SRI, for short) in India in the last few years and presents some of the institutional changes and challenges that SRI throws up. The first part looks at the complex and continuing evolution of SRI in India and presents SRI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528318
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Coping with Risk or Courting More Risk?report on changing rural livelihoods during agrarian distress in Kerala
Ramakumar, R. - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper deals with the agrarian distress experienced in parts of rural Kerala from the latter half of the 1990s, and the ways in which the distress affected the livelihoods of cultivating households. In particular, the paper discusses the reasons for the agrarian distress, its impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528319
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Agriculture: A Perspective from History, the Metrics of Comparative Advantage, and Limitations of the Market to Understand the Role of State in a Globalising World
Morris, Sebastian - eSocialSciences - 2007
Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success … potential in the long run have been coaxed to adopt near free trade in agriculture with disastrous results especially for the … [between economic development and agriculture, trade in agriculture, the role of state action especially in the late …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528362
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Trends in Growth of Agriculture Sector of the Indian Economy
Mishra, S.K. - eSocialSciences - 2007
Growth in the agriculture sector may well be judged by the increase in agricultural production over time. In economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528372
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Contract Farming for Agricultural Development:Review of Theory and Practice with Special Reference to India
Singh, Sukhpal - eSocialSciences - 2005
The present paper examines contract farming and its situation in India on the basis of nature of contracts, nature of contract growers, practice and implementation of contract farming and techniques, practices and changing dynamics of contract farming in India.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528387