Recently added articles from Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics:

Diversification of Employment and Earnings by Rural Households in West Bengal

Oct 01, 2007; Bhaumik, Sankar Kumar ... I INTRODUCTION It is now a recognised fact that farming on its own does not provide a sufficient means of survival to a majority of rural households in most of the developing countries. Accordingly, most of the rural households depend on a diverse portfolio of activities and ...

Risk Attitude and Risk Management Strategies: An Analysis of Dairy Farmers in Tarai Area of Uttaranchal State

Oct 01, 2007; Bardhan, D; Tewari, S K ... I INTRODUCTION Animal husbandry in India plays an important role in the rural economy. India is bestowed with huge and diverse livestock resources. As per recent estimates of FAO (2004), India has 222 million cattle, 95 million buffaloes, 24 million goats, 59 million sheep and ...

Yield Gaps in Mulberry Sericulture in Karnataka: An Econometric Analysis

Oct 01, 2007; Lakshmanan, S ... I INTRODUCTION Mulberry sericulture is a labour-intensive industry in all its phases, namely, cultivation of silkworm food plants, silkworm rearing, silk reeling and other postcocoon processes such as twisting, dyeing, weaving, printing and finishing. It provides employment to ...

Productivity and Efficiency in Indian Meat Processing Industry: A DEA Approach

Oct 01, 2007; Ali, Jabir ... I INTRODUCTION Food processing is a sunrise industry of the Indian economy and has been identified as a thrust area for development. Food processing sector covers a wide range of items like fruits and vegetables; meat and poultry; milk and milk products, alcoholic beverages, ...

Economic Analysis of Smallholder Rubber Plantations in West Garo Hills District of Meghalaya

Oct 01, 2007; Goswami, S N; Challa, O ... I INTRODUCTION Rubber plantations in India were started by the British. The economic importance of rubber plantation in India hardly needs any emphasis. Rubber plantations supply raw materials for the production of many industrialised goods required for automobiles, aircrafts, ...

Supply Analysis of Institutional Credit to Agriculture for Major States in India

Oct 01, 2007; Sahu, Gagan Bihari ... I INTRODUCTION There is realisation in most of the low-income countries that agricultural credit is an important element in their development efforts. The popularity of credit is partly due to the notion that loans are necessary to accelerate technological change in farming, and ...

Milk Procurement Cost for Co-operative and Private Dairy Plants in Tamil Nadu - A Comparison

Oct 01, 2007; Rangasamy, N; Dhaka, J P ... I INTRODUCTION The triumph of dairy industry is extremely influenced by operations, viz., procurement of milk, processing and distribution of milk and its products. Among these three components, milk procurement is the edifice of the dairy industry on which economic efficiency of ...

China's Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects/China's Rural Economy after WTO: Problems and Strategies

Oct 01, 2007; Chand, Ramesh ... China's Agricultural Development: Challenges and Prospects, Edited by Xiao-Yuan Dong, Shunfeng Song and Xiaobo Zhang, The Chinese Economy Series, Ashgate Publishing Limited, England, U.K., 2006. Pp.xii+311. £65.00. China's Rural Economy after WTO: Problems and Strategies, Edited by ...

Environmental Requirements and Market Access: Reflections from South Asia

Oct 01, 2007; Marothia, Dinesh K ... Environmental Requirements and Market Access: Reflections from South Asia, Edited by Nagesh Kumar and Sachin Chaturvedi, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2007. Pp.v+264. Rs. 695.00. The book under review is the outcome of the study undertaken by Research and Information System for ...

Gandhian Way: Peace, Non-Violence and Empowerment

Oct 01, 2007; Mujumdar, N A ... Gandhian Way: Peace, Non-Violence and Empowerment, Edited by Anand Sharma, Indian National Congress, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2007. Pp.320. Rs.3000.00. Mahatma Gandhi started the Satyagraha movement - "the firmness of the force of truth" - on 11th September 1906 and to commemorate ...

Ph.D. Theses in Agricultural Economics Completed in Universities in India: 2005-2007

Oct 01, 2007; Mujumdar, N A ... In pursuance of the decision to publish information on completed Ph.D. Theses in Agricultural Economics from Universities/academic institutions in India on a regular basis, in the last issue of the Journal every year, a questionnaire was canvassed in March 2007 to 64 Universities/Institutions, ...

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Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Seminar on Agrarian Distress: Problems and Remedies The Society organised a National Seminar on "Agrarian Distress: Problems and Remedies" in collaboration with National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP), New Delhi on August 1 and 2, 2007. Dr. P.K. Joshi, ...

Indicative Outlines of Subjects Selected for Discussion at the 68th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... The 68th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics will be held under the auspices of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) sometime in November or December 2008. The following subjects are selected for discussion: 1) Triggering Agricultural ...