Based on the variable rate of GDP per capita growth and its sources, this paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan and South Korean: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (a la Kuznets), H (human capital based) and PD (post...

About forty lakh hectare of land is under cotton cultivation in Maharashtra. Once known as the prosperous cotton-belt; today the irony is that the state tops the list when it comes to suicides by farmers. Further, almost all of them are cotton farmers mostly from Vidarbha. At present, Vidarbha...

Biofortification is a promising strategy to reduce the persisting micronutrient deficiency. Biofortifying wheat grains has the potential to alleviate malnutrition as it is one of the major staple crops. In this study, we examine the research progress and impact of agronomic and genetic efforts...

Wheat being a nutri-rich grain has a significant role in ensuring food and nutritional security for establishing zero hunger as committed under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The importance of wheat in Asia’s food basket and nutrition is clearly depicted through a significant...

Agricultural productivity in Africa from 1971 to 2000 is examined using the recently developed metafrontier function technique, for the purpose of studying differences in efficiency and technology gap across different regions of the continent. The results support the view that technology gap...

Climate change has imposed a serious problem on the agrarian economy of Maharashtra. An attempt was made to calculate the farm household-level socio-economic vulnerability index (SeVI) to assess the real-time situation of farm households. The index was developed using the Intergovernmental Panel...

The objective of this paper is to study the nature and trends of cropping pattern in Orissa, a coastal state of India. For this purpose we have taken into account all thirteen districts of the state and 18 crops of the districts which cover more than 95percent of the gross cropped area of the...

The objective of this paper is to examine the nature of crop diversification and crop concentration in Orissa in the last one and half decade. It is pursued through measuring crop diversification and crop concentration index. We have used Herphindal and Entropy measure for crop diversification....

Climate change is a serious threat to Maharashtra’s agrarian economy due to persistent droughts, floods, irregular rainfall, etc. In this context, the present study was carried out during 2020–21 in three districts of Maharashtra, viz. Parbhani, Sindhudurg and Ahmednagar based on the extent...

Wheat production has undergone rapid strides in India, mainly attributed to the widely cultivated high-yielding varieties (HYVs) and other technological interventions and innovations. Adopting such HYVs increased public welfare, especially in fulfilling food and nutritional security. Globally,...