Dairy farming has emerged as an important source of livelihood, particularly on small holder households. The efficient management of dairy cooperative system has facilitated milk production and marketing in Bihar. An attempt was made to analyze the milk contribution to dairy co-operative,...

Futures trading in agricultural commodities in India has a past spanning more than a century. Commodity Futures are traded for castor seed, hessian, sacking, turmeric pepper, gur and potato. Trading has also commenced in cotton. Conditions of supply, demand, transportation, storage, and...

The study has explored the intricacies of fodder value chain in Bihar. It has found that paddy straw and wheat bhusa (Wheat straw) are the major fodders that account for about 95 per cent of the total marketed fodder in Bihar. Mainly four types of fodder supply chains have been identified. It...

The institutional credit has been conceived to play a pivotal role in the agricultural development of India. A large number of institutional agencies are involved in the disbursement of credit to agriculture. However, the persistence of money lenders in the rural credit market is still a major...

Bihar is characterized by excessive dependence of population on agriculture and dominance of small land holders. Small and marginal farmers constitute about 90 per cent of total farm households, whereas farm households owning land less than 0.5 constitute 78 per cent of total farm households and...

An estimated 85% of Afghanistan's population lives in rural areas, most of which are resource poor farmers whose livelihoods depend on agriculture and livestock in agro-pastoral or crop-livestock systems. Agriculture – including the processing of agricultural and livestock products -- provide...