The WTO regime has thronged new opportunities as well as challenges to Indian agriculture. The paper reviews impact of WTO regime on Indian agriculture competitiveness in comparison to developed countries. As majority of Indian farmers are small and marginal there is greater scope in organizing...

Chickpea is an important pulse crop in India. The production of chickpea is stagnate and its variability is increased in the past three decades. The present study is an attempt to examine the pattern of growth, variability and the sources of growth and instability in production of chickpea at...

In India, pulses annual production ranges from 11-15 million tons with per hectare of yield of 595 kg. India contributes about 93% of the total global pigeonpea, 68% of chickpea and 32% of lentil production. However India’s rank in productivity is low that is 24th in chickpea, 9th in...

In India, agriculture contributes to 67.9% of employment but it only contributes to 38.34% of rural GDP and about 12% to Indias GDP. It shows that even though structural transformation in GDP taken place rapidly, transformation in employment is very slow especially in rural areas. Keeping this,...

Given the slow structural transformation of employment in rural areas in India, this paper tries to probe into the structural transformation in semi-arid tropics of India, by using high frequency longitudinal panel data from 1975 to 2010. The results show that, up to early 1980s, structural...

After liberalisation of Indian economy in early 1990s, India’s GDP growth rates have been picked up and there is a sign of speeding up of structural transformation in Indian economy with the share of agriculture in GDP reduced to 12%. However, still about 50% of the labor force depends on...

The study examined occupational diversification among rural households in Andhra Pradesh. The specific objectives of the study are: (i) To examine the occupational structure of households in different regions of rural Andhra Pradesh (ii) To assess the level of unemployment, underemployment and...

The extent of India's regional disparities has been an issue since many decades, and this concern has been partly motivated by a desire to alleviate poverty. Agriculture remains an important feature of the economic, cultural and political landscape in India. Orissa is one of the poorest States...

The extent of India’s regional disparities has been an issue since many decades, and this concern has been partly motivated by a desire to alleviate poverty (Datt and Ravallion, 1996). Agriculture remains an important feature of the economic, cultural and political landscape in India. Orissa...

India is a federal union of 28 states. The states are further subdivided into districts. Andhra Pradesh is one of the largest states in India. This article examines how regional disparities in Andhra Pradesh have developed since its formation in 1956. A large urban centre (Hyderabad) which acts...