The agriculture in Bihar is still grappled with low investment and low input agriculture and therefore besides low productivity, growth in production and productivity of most of the major crops are quite low as compared to other developed states. Though agriculture contributes more than 40 per...

In India, male out-migration from rural to urban areas has increased in recent years, especially in the Indo- Gangetic regions of the country. This indicates that most of the developed regions of India are utilizing labour force of backward areas. The paper has investigated on labour...

This study has evaluated the superiority of resource conservation technologies (RCTs) over conventional methods of cultivation and has identified the factors influencing adoption of these technologies. It has provided succinct evidences from four states — Bihar, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar...