The Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics


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Vols. include Proceedings of the conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics.







Growth and Equity


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Research report on agricultural policies for growth with equity and agricultural production trends 1950-1979 in India - examines effects of high-crop yielding seeds on interregional disparities, special programmes for small farmers, etc., proposes new poverty-alleviating agricultural development strategy, institutional reform, and decentralization of agricultural planning, and compares with experiences in Japan, the USA and Western Europe. Bibliographys and graphs.







RECENT TRENDS AND PATTERNS OF AGRICULTURAL CREDIT IN INDIA


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This book examines the Recent Trends and Patterns of Agricultural Credit in India during the Post-reforms period, one of the defining aspects of the current phase of globalization and economic reforms is the increased threat to the livelihoods of small farmers in developing countries. There are instances of this across the developing world, from 1998 until the present; thousands of small farmers have committed suicide in India. For the proper functioning of an agriculture system farmers need to use many inputs. One among them is credit. It is considered as an important part in the development of agriculture. The study is exclusively based on secondary data. The data have been collected from various issues of Report on Currency and Finance (RBI), Banking Statistics (RBI), Report on Trends and Progress in Banking in India (RBI), RBI Bulletin (RBI), NABARD, various rounds of NSSO, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), Statistical Outline of India (Tata Services Ltd.) and Economic Survey (Government of India). The main objective of this book is to provide students and instructor with clear, up-to- date and sample and straight forward approach to learn about agricultural credit. It may helpful for research all. I appreciate to all the people who and thanks is diversity or indirectly involved to help and publish this book.




Production and Consumption of Foodgrains in India


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Trends and changes in foodgrain production; Input use and production behavior; Trends and changes in per capita consumption of foodgrains; Scenarios for the year 2000.




Land Reforms and Farm Diversity


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This book makes a micro-study ofco-relation between farm-diversity and land reform through various significantissues, concepts, review of literature from First Five Year Plan to the Tenth Planin a lucid, simple and systematic manner.




Cotton in Madurai District


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It meets a long-felt need for a comprehensive analysis of cotton crop at the micro level; focussing on cost-return structure, farm-size and efficiency, labour absorption, elasticity of supply with respect to fixed inputs and variable inputs, demand for variable inputs with respect to cotton price, etc. It will prove an essential reading not only to the academics but also to the planners, policy-makers and government agencies. Review The Study aims at analysing the cost and return structure, determinants of yield, yield gap, supply and demand elasticities, absorption of labour and economic efficiency of the two farmer groups producing the LRA-5166 and MCU-5 varieties of cotton in two blocks of district Madurai. On the whole study offers a major base of techniques and systematic orientation of a research design. Dr. H.P. Singh, Review Projector (India), Vol. 8, Nos. 4-6.







Indian Agriculture


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This volume examines the transitions in Indian agriculture since the 1980s, and emphasizes upon the role of neoliberal policies and their impact. The essays presented here deal with a range of pertinent and contemporary issues, including global food security, livelihoods of agricultural labourers, and public and private investment. These weave together glimpses of the impasse faced by petty commodity producers (marginal and small farmers) and their subsequent economic distress and social exclusion. Comprehensive in analysis, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of agricultural economics, political economy, political science and public policy.