This paper reviews the performance of Indian agriculture in the context of the development in agricultural trade especially agricultural exports internationally and outlines a strategy for augmenting...
Review Of Agriculture
On the basis of available, sparse data this paper finds the functioning of water users' associations (WUAs) in Maharashtra beneficial on various fronts. Not only have the WUAs increased their...
This paper attempts to build a composite index of rural infrastructure statewise and examines the relationship between infrastructure development and levels of production and growth in agriculture.
Systems in India Socio-Economic and Policy Issues Introduction RICE-WHEAT Cropping Systems (RWCS) gained prominence from the mid- 1960s with the introduction of short- duration and high-yielding...
Trends in Indian Seed Industry Vandana Shiva Tom Crompton The Indian seed industry is expected to grow very rapidly in the coming years. There are several grounds for expecting that the seed...
Production Technology Introduction IN earlier communications to this journal Dey and Rudra (1973 a, b) presented some results based on farm-level data of Farm Management Survey of West Bengal of a...
Weak Link in Development Shashanka Bhide K P Kalirajan R T Shan d There has been a growing concern on the performance of agricultural sector in recent years. The regional balance in growth has also...
and Economic Growth V B Angadi Monetary and Financial Policies in Developing Countries: Growth and Stabilisation by Akhtar Hussain and Anis Choudhary; Routledge Studies in Development Economics,...
Rice-and Wheat-Straw in Punjab INTRODUCTION RICE and wheat have become the most prominent crops in the present Punjab since the mid 1960s. The total area under rice increased from 0.24 million ha in...
The technological sophistication manifested at Pokhran is a product of a long process of prioritisation of national security since the Sino-Indian war of 1962, and all mainstream political parties...
Conservation of rain water and checking soil erosion is central to the attainment of economic as well as financial sustainability of dryland agriculture. Integrated Watershed Development Programme...
This paper represents a preliminary effort to identify a social basis for groundwater rights reform in India and to identify governance structures capable of ensuring that stakeholder values are...
The major and medium storage system of surface irrigation has a crucial role to play in water-scarce, drought- prone, seasonal river-flowing Maharashtra. Unfortunately, the performance of this...
The Question of 'How' Rashmi Sharma The question of how elementary education can and should be made universal has not received the attention' it deserves. Two issues need to be highlighted. Firstly...
T Haque Some agricultural experts have expressed the apprehension that the emergence of rice-wheat rotation crop system as a post-green revolution phenomenon has resulted in waterlogging, soil...
