India is the third largest producer of tobacco in the world after China and USA. Though it occupies a mere 0.25 per cent of the cropped area in the country, it contributed Rs. 507 crores to the foreign exchange earnings and Rs. 3200 crores to the exchequer by way of central excise during...

Rural development programmes (RDPs) can be broadly classified as enterprise oriented and labour service oriented programmes. This paper discusses the strategy that needs to be adopted for ensuring effective implementation of enterprise oriented programmes. The key features for ensuring success...

With a view to understand the current status and working of Cooperative credit Structure and to formulate the strategy they need to follow in the coming decade, Kheda district in Gujarat selected for a case study. On the basis of insights developed, the strategy needed to strengthen the...

Of late Organizational buying process has emerged as one of the most important fields of study in Marketing since the organizations are the single most important segment of buyers. Since the quantum of organizational buying is huge and varied, naturally the buying process is highly complex and...

Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents. It is based on enhanced understanding of the genetic structure of organisms at the level of cells and molecules and offers powerful tools to modify them for a specific...

Inventions are based on novel and useful ideas. Those ideas are the intellectual property of the inventors and they should be recognised and sufficiently rewarded in order to make inventors disclose the idea to the benefit of the society. Though industrial patents were in existence for a long...

In all irrigation projects, field level distribution of water is continuing to be a major problem. This task is handled departmentally. To ensure participation by the beneficiaries some innovations like ‘Wara Bandhi’ system has been tried. In 1978 India’s first surface irrigation...

This paper makes an attempt to give an overview of the approaches evolved in the past in building up cooperatives organizations in Indian and the recent attempt which has yielded some measure of success. Three approaches have been followed in organization building in India : evolutionary model,...

The history of industrial cooperative is a record of the efforts of the cooperators to bring about harmony between capital and labour. Workers’ cooperatives in India are found in (a) Traditional Industries, (b) Small Scale Industries, and (c) Modern Industries. In this paper an insight into...

This working paper confines its scope to performance of National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS). It examines the progress of NAIS in India and in one selected state, Gujarat. The two dimensions considered are coverage over time and across the states. It is further disaggregated for...