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Food Corporation of India's (FCI's) procurement volume is driven by the production level and the difference between the MSP …
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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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and Korea, or now emerging economies like China and India. The type of support, of course, varies widely across countries …. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone … and a sizeable portion of budgetary support goes towards fertiliser subsidy. Fertiliser subsidy in India has succeeded in …
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, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean … energy in India in the next six years. In a country that generates more than 60 percent of its power by burning coal, and … country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set …
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Since independence, India has come a long way from being a food-deficit to a food surplus country. With its varied agro …
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Farmers in India are exposed to large agriculture risks due to vagaries of nature. One of the most effective mechanisms … Solution (CBS) and crop insurance is need of the hour giving information on real time basis. India's prowess in Information …
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Since the early 2000s, many Indian states started reforming their agricultural marketing policies and allowed private traders to buy directly from farmers outside the state-regulated market system. The experience of these states during the period 2000 - 2012 can shed light on the impact of...
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utility proxy, we find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households. Expansions in India's flagship …
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Vulnerability assessments by developing Farmers’ Distress Index (FDI) can play a vital role in the design of appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies directed towards the various structural changes in the recent era — for those who depend on agriculture for their livelihood and...
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South India and apply a fixed-effects regression framework to analyze how employment choices affect household consumption of …
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