...institutional framework for implementing the ASDSP is initiated and coordination in the sector is supported. Component 2: Natural Resource Management. The component is designed to provide an enabling environment for the value chain component and at the same time build wider ecosystem resilience. Component 3: Value Chain Development. This component supports the commercialization and market orientation of the agricultural...
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...AGRICLINICS AND AGRIBUSINESS CENTRE INTRODUCTION: With the diversification and modernisation of agricultural practices, there is a need to augment support and extension services for agriculture. For this purpose, a scheme for setting up agriclinics and agribusiness centres by agriculture graduates has been launched by GoI with the support of NABARD. These centres will provide a package of input facilities, consultancy and other services. They will strengthen transfer of technology and extension services and also provide self employment opportunities to technically trained persons. BACKGROUND OF THE SCHEME: There are 11,900 graduates from agriculture and allied sectors passing out from agricultural universities in India. However, only 2000 are able to get employment in Government/Private sectors. Thus there remains a vast pool of around 9900 graduates in the country who can support and boost agricultural production process if viable business opportunities are provided to them. On the other hand there exists an agricultural extension system which is fast shrinking resulting in wide extension gaps between those who require improved technologies and those who generate them.Thus in the aftermath of this wide extension gap and the vast pool of unemployed agriculture pass outs remains to be tapped to provide support to the extension system and ultimately to help improve agricultural productivity. This gave birth to a unique and ambitions scheme to address the twin objectives...
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...livestock Based IFS interventions among the Tribal beneficiaries Dr. K.L. Dangi* Ramesh Kumar Damor** and Santosh Devi Samota*** * Professor, Department of Extension Education, RCA, Udaipur-313001 (Raj.). India * *& *** Ph.D Schilar, Department of Extension Education, RCA, Udaipur-313001 (Raj.). India Abstract Six year ambitious agricultural research Programme was launched in India on 6th July, 2006, which is known as National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), the project focused on innovations in agricultural technology. The NAIP was implemented in four districts of southern Rajasthan state viz., Banswara, Dungarpur, Sirohi and Udaipur. Two clusters of Dungarpur district were selected for the present study. These were (a) Faloj and (b) Bichhiwara. Total 10 villages out of 15 villages (under NAIP) were selected proportionately on random basis for inclusion in the study. Total size of sample was of 104 respondents. It was found that 95 (91.35 per cent) of the farmers were of their face values expressing strengths of NAIP with moderate extent. Negligible respondents 5 (4.81 per cent) and 4 (3.84 per cent) could be observed falling under high and low strengths of NAIP respectively. The strong aspects of NAIP with special reference to livestock based IFS were “green fodder production”, “milk production”, “use of agricultural implements”, “feeding pattern of animals”, “artificial insemination” and “use of processing equipments” as per the perception of tribal beneficiaries. These...
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...The Agrarian Crisis in India: The Root Causes The declining contribution of the agriculture sector towards India’s GDP is questioning the status of this sector as the backbone of the economy. With time agriculture is turning into an economically unviable activity with almost no profitability pushing the sector in a state of crisis. The following report analyses how the agrarian crisis can largely be attributed to the economic reforms in India since 1991. Lack of Easy Credit to Agriculture and Dependence on Money Lenders In 1969, 14 major commercial banks were nationalized with one of the objectives of developing banking sector in rural areas and providing easy institutionalized credit to the farmer. Soon these banks became the major source of affordable credit in the rural market particularly for the small and marginal farmers. However in the era of neo liberalization, since 1991, the nationalized banks started reducing their commitment below the prescribed 18 per cent, while the cooperative banks turned sick and failed to provide credit. With the implementation of the recommendations of the Narasimham Committee on Banking Reform post 1991, some of which included the decontrol of interest rates, large scale closure of rural branches for rationalized branch networks, the national effort towards developmental and social banking for farmers came to an end. This squeezed credit lines to farmers and led to a drastic fall in the credit flow to agriculture. In Andhra...
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...Marketing Research Project 2015-2016 Study on mobile phones contribution in better agricultural decision making by Indian Farmers. Report Submitted By- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Jogendra Kumar Nayak, Assistant Professor, for providing us opportunity to pursue work on the project “Study on mobile phones contribution in better agricultural decision making by Indian Farmers” and also for providing us with necessary facilities, freedom of thoughts and actions, and guidance for efficiently conducting our work. We sincerely thank our respondents and our colleagues from the course structure of Marketing Research and all other who were directly or indirectly involved in the project, for entrusting us with the project meanwhile mentoring and guiding us and helping us conduct our work with utmost proficiency. This project gave us an insight in the applications of mobile phones in providing best agro based information to our farmers. Through our study we came to the understanding that exploiting the technological advancements in the agriculture sector can help our producers to a great extent. Group 2|Page Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................................................... 2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 5 ...
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...Agrarian Crisis and Farmers’ Suicides in India1 Srijit Mishra2 First version: 20 October 2008; this version: 29 September 2009. Introduction: The larger agrarian crisis has two dimensions. On the one hand, there is a livelihood crisis that threatens the very basis of survival for the vast majority of small and marginal farmers as also for agricultural labourers. On the other hand, there is an agricultural developmental crisis that lies in the neglect of agriculture arising out of poor design of programmes and allocation of resources and having resulted in declining productivity and profitability (Government of India 2007, Reddy and Mishra 2009). This twin dimensions could also be equated with the developmental discourse where the former is about displacement of people and the latter is about displacement of ideology (Bhaduri 2008). The outcome is that planning is not people-centric. Features of the Current Crisis: During the 1990s (1993-94 to 2004-05) when the compound annual growth rate for the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 5.9 per cent whereas agricultural GDP was significantly lower at 2.2 per cent. Compared to 1980s (1983-84 to 1993-94), agricultural Gross State Domestic Product was lower in most states in the 1990s and this deceleration was significant for the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, undivided Bihar, Haryana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, Sikkim and Tamil Nadu. There has been a decline in the trend growth rate in the production and productivity...
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...Lal Gaur The warehousing and marketing facilities have important linkages that help farmers and traders gain from agricultural trade, where storage use to be an extremely vital function for success deciding success of agricultural marketing. It involves holding and preserving of agricultural commodities from the time they are produced until they are needed for consumption. Looking into prevailing socio economic scenario of Indian farmers there exists an inevitable need to provide the farming community with facilities for scientific storage, so that wastage and produce deterioration are avoided and also to enable it to meet its credit requirement without being compelled to sell the produce at a time when the prices are low. An improved policy framework accommodating modern infrastructure and smart management tools & techniques like IT, ICT , and e-trading may help in reduction of wastage and better marketing and will enable small & marginal farmers to enhance their holding capacity in order to sell their produce at remunerative prices and avoid distress sales. Agricultural activities in India are largely carried out by small and marginal farmers, where exists about 121 million operational holdings, over 80 % of which comprise marginal and small holdings (< 2 ha). There subsist variety of marketing services & facilities in the sectors of R&D, Extension, and other market intelligence services by Government sector, but in real sense they are inadequate having ample scope...
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...tend to be highest The Second Green Revolution is a change in agricultural production widely thought necessary to feed and sustain the growing population on Earth. These calls have precipitated in part, as a response to rising food commodity prices, and fears of peak oil among other factors India’s 2010-11 harvest was its largest ever, more than 240 million tons. The next harvest is expected to be even bigger. The government recently announced its target for year 2020: 400 million tons. Is this realistic? What changes would it require, in technology, policies and approach? And could these ideas be applied in other developing countries? To answer these questions, we first look at the Green Revolution of the 1960s and ‘70s, which transformed a chronically food-deficient country into the world’s second largest agricultural producer. Between the mid ‘60s and the mid ‘90s, food production more than doubled, while the intensity of hunger and poverty was cut by half. The Green Revolution was driven by greater use of inputs – irrigation, fertilizer, and high-yielding photoperiod-insensitive ‘dwarf’ varieties of wheat and rice. But what set it apart from similar but less successful efforts in other countries was the integrated approach, combining research, education, policy, institutions and services, backed by strong political will. THE LIMITS OF SUCCESS The Green Revolution has now waned. India’s agricultural sector is growing, but much slower than the rest of the economy....
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...fish. It also affects the socio-economic aspects causing changes in yields and production, reduced GDP from agriculture in the long term, greater fluctuations in market prices, and increased number of people at risk of food insecurity and changes in distribution of geographical distribution of trade with agricultural sector being the hardest hit due to underlying climate risks. Yet, the impact varies from community to community, region to region and continent to continent. In general, it is said that the effects of climate change on agriculture will be felt most in the developing world and in the least developed countries (Muller et al. 2009). In India, agriculture is one of the largest contributors to GDP (approximately 20%) and provides employment to over 60% of the country’s population. The impacts of climate change on agriculture will therefore be rigorously felt in India. It has been projected that under a situation of rise of a 2.50C to 4.90C temperature rise in India, rice yields will drop by 32-40% and wheat yields by 41-52% causing the GDP to fall by 1.8-3.4% (Guiteras 2007). Despite the dismal forecast about the ill-effects of climate change for India’s agricultural sector, certain opportunities too are expected in form of production gains through carbon-dioxide fertilization effect (i.e. increased plant productivity due to photosynthesis as a result of higher concentrations of...
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...GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & COOPERATION) DIRECTORATE OF MARKETING & INSPECTION BRANCH HEAD OFFICE NAGPUR MRPC-70 1 POST-HARVEST PROFILE OF SUNFLOWER CONTENTS Page No. 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 1.2 2.0 Origin Importance 4-5 4 5 6-9 6 7 9 10-36 10 10 11 14 14 25 25 26 27 29 31 32 33 PRODUCTION 2.1 2.2 2.3 Major producing countries in the world Major producing states in India Zone-wise major commercial varieties 3.0 POST-HARVEST MANAGENENT 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Post-harvest losses Harvesting care Post-harvest equipments Grading 3.4.1 Grade specifications 3.4.2 Adulterants and toxins 3.4.3 Grading at producers’ level and under Agmark 3.5 3.6 3.7 Packaging Transportation Storage 3.7.1 Major storage pests and their control measures 3.7.2 Storage structures 3.7.3 Storage facilities i) Producers’ storage ii) Rural godowns iii) Mandi godowns iv) Central Warehousing Corporation v) State Warehousing Corporations vi) Co-operatives 3.7.4 Pledge finance system 36 Page No. 2 4.0 MARKETING PRACTICES AND CONSTRAINTS 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Assembling (Major assembling markets) 4.1.1 Arrivals 4.1.2 Despatches Distribution 4.2.1 Inter-state movement Export and import 4.3.1 Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary requirements 4.3.2 Export procedures Marketing constraints 37-45 37 38 39 39 39 40 43 44 45 46-48 46 48 50-53 54-56 54 55 55 56 58-63 58 61 63 66-68 66 68 70-71 72-73 5.0 MARKETING CHANNELS, COSTS AND MARGINS 5.1 5.2 Marketing channels...
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...Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Discussion Paper 34 Agricultural Research and Poverty Reduction Peter Hazell and Lawrence Haddad International Food Policy Research Institute 2033 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 U.S.A. August 2001 INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP (TAC), CONSULTATIVE GROUP Copyright © 2001 International Food Policy Research Institute All rights reserved. Sections of this report may be reproduced without the express permission of but with acknowledgment to the International Food Policy Research Institute. ISBN 0-89629-639-3 Foreword v Acknowledgments vi 1. Introduction 1 2. The Nature and Extent of Poverty 3 3. How Agricultural Research Can Help the Poor 9 4. Targeting Agricultural Research to Benefit the Poor 18 5. Strategies for Pro-Poor Agricultural Research 26 6. The Role of Public Research and Extension Systems 35 References 37 Contents iii Tables 1. Trends in child malnutrition in developing countries, by region, 1970–95 6 2. Distribution of land types by region 6 3. Distribution of malnourished children by agroecological zone, 1990 7 4. Comparison of low- and middle-income countries 21 5. Priorities for agricultural research to reduce national poverty by type of adopting region 24 Figures 1. Number of people living on less than $1 a day, 1987 and 1998 4 2. Those living with HIV/AIDS and those newly infected: Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa...
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...Feb 2014 | ISSN - 2249-555X An Economic analysis of Trends in Agriculture Growth and Production in India KEYWORDS Ramachandra Murthy K Research Scholar DOS in Economics and Cooperation, University of Mysore, Mysore Anand C Research Scholar, DOS in Economics and Cooperation, University of Mysore, Mysore Manjuprasad C Research Scholar, DOS in Economics and Cooperation, University of Mysore, Mysore ABSTRACT The present paper examines the performance of Trends of Agriculture growth and production in India. And also The paper has shown the growth and production has significantly increased from during the last three decades and also highlight the performance of the Indian agriculture growth is also increased over the period of time the present paper mainly focused on the secondary sources with help of the statistical tools such as mean, standard deviation, covariance, CGR, regression methods has been used for study purpose. Introduction India has made impressive strides on the agricultural front during the past three decades. Much of the credit for this success should go to the several million small farming families that form the backbone of Indian agriculture and Indian economy. Policy support, production strategies, public investment in infrastructure, research and extension for crop, livestock and fisheries have significantly helped in increasing the agricultural productivity, food production and its availability. Notwithstanding these achievements, producing additional...
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...improved for better in the years since 2004-05. Discuss the factors behind these outcomes. Agriculture provides employment to over 50% of the workforce and the forward and backward linkages associated with its growth have a considerable effect on the incomes of the non agricultural sector. Contributing not only to the overall growth of the economy, but it's role in reducing poverty by providing employment and food security, makes it one of the most inclusive growth sectors of the Indian economy. The deceleration in growth during the period 1997-2004, occurred in almost all the states and sub-sectors, including horticulture, livestock and fisheries where growth was expected to be high. While there was an emphasis on price factors following the economic reforms of the 1990s due to the implementation of the WTO agreement, it was at the cost of non price factors like research and extension, irrigation and credit. Aided by fluctuating rainfall, undeveloped irrigation facilities, groundwater depletion and the absence of a sign of a second green revolution along with a sharp decline in agricultural productivity in states like Punjab and Haryana gave an impression of a depressing scenario with agricultural growth, amounting to only 1.6% per annum. However there have been positive developments in the last decade with the introduction of new policies and initiatives by the government which have led to an emergence of a positive picture with growth now 3.5% per annum. POLICIES ...
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...Term Paper BHUPESH MANOHARAN (0086/49) ACNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to Professor Nimruji Prasad J. for providing me with this opportunity and helped me in doing this term paper. It was her able guidance and constant appraisal of the paper that led me to have holistic view of the subject and improvise the paper. Table of Contents ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................... 3 INTRODUCTION: ............................................................................................ 4 ORGANIC AGRI-BUSINESS: HOW IS IT DIFFERENT?............................ 4 METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................ 5 LIMITATIONS OF THE METHODOLOGY .................................................... 5 SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES IN ORGANIC AGRIBUSINESS ........................ 5 ENVIRONMENTAL/ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY ........................... 5 ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY: ................................................................. 6 SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: ....................................................................... 7 OPPORTUNITIES & CONSTRAINTS IN ORGANIC AGRIBUSINESS ........ 7 OPPORTUNITIES ......................................................................................... 7 CONSTRAINTS ............................................................................................. 8 SUSTAINABLE PRINCIPLES...
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...of people across. Several of the indigenous practices like rotation of crops; drill husbandries etc. were perfected in India centuries before they were adopted by the other nations in their respective ‘agricultural revolution’. There is much to be learned from these practices of the local people. They are many instances, which show that these practices are not only feasible but also sustainable i.e. they cause minimal ecological degradation. Hence regarding these indigenous knowledge as "low productive," "primitive," and "old" cannot be justified. Instead this knowledge should form the foundation of developing more sustainable practices and technologies. People in the formal scientific knowledge system should grasp the importance of local knowledge. Those studies, which do go into details of the indigenous agricultural practices, present an entirely different picture of it than what one would have imagined of an unscientific, backward and primitive system of agriculture. Bringing this will lead to a desirable change in the attitudes and behaviors of researchers and would stimulate the process of incorporating indigenous knowledge systems into agricultural research and extension. Unfortunately everything comes with certain advantages and disadvantages. Despite its huge scope and potential for developing further, indigenous practices in India are obstructed due to the various traditions and superstitions prevalent around the country. As discussed...
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