The poor functioning of MPCS coupled with lack of attention given to dairy development activities have posed many threats to dairy sector of Jalna district, which may ultimately lead to reduction in milk production and supply. This calls for appropriate measures to be initiated to revitalize the...

Under new market environment, various developing countries are expected to face different situation and challenges in their agricultural sector, which may well result in different group of developing countries emphasizing upon different issues. First, there is a number of developing countries...

Since poultry farming is highly susceptible to disease attack, it is felt that all the hatcheries should have insurance cover to avoid disease attack on hatcheries. Government should make it compulsory for insurance companies to include/have insurance of Government hatcheries on subsidised...

In order to raise milk, meat and wool production in the district of Jalna, there is a need to adopt multi- pronged strategy encompassing: rise in number of A.I. services, provision of door-step A.I. services through ‘Pashu Sevaks', timely insemination to achieve higher conception rate,...

The increasing urbanization in India over time has resulted in deceleration or negative growth in productivity of land and resultant decline in availability of food-grains for the consuming population. The growing urban population with near stagnant productivity of food crops has raised several...

The present investigation was conducted in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. The study showed a reduction in the operational efficiency of the selected PACS during the post-economic reform period as against the pre-economic reform period. The operational efficiency was measured in respect of...

The new generation lending institutions like SHGs show high rate of recovery despite excessively high rates of interest on their loan advances. They also show lower transaction cost as compared to other lending institutions. This makes it necessary for credit cooperatives and commercial banks to...

The study, carried out in the state of Maharashtra of India during 2003-04, is based on a case of cooperative dealing with the marketing of mainly fruit with its spectrum spread over various other marketing activities. The study has evaluated the performance of Nahvi Co-operative Fruit Sale...