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  1. SHGs as a Strategy or Mode for Reaching the Unreached for Rural Credit

    Authors: Desai, Bhupat M; Namboodiri, N V;

    Reference No: CMA0783EX Pages: 9 Published on: 1, January, 2000

    Abstract: This case, based on published literature and field visits, poses some questions as to whether SHGs can be a substitute for the existing "mode" or "strategy" of RFIs in reaching the unreached, which of three models of linkage of SHGs with banks may be chosen, in what manner saving and ... More

  2. Price and Non-Price Factors for Agricultural Development under New Economic Policies

    Authors: Desai, Bhupat M; Namboodiri, N V;

    Reference No: CMA0784TEC Pages: 17 Published on: 1, January, 2000

    Abstract: This note first briefly discusses the new economic policies as they pertain to the agricultural sector. It then formally tests the impact of relative farm prices which these policies aim to improve and the non-price factors on both aggregate agricultural output and marketed surplus considering the Nerlovian type of Partial ... More

  3. Farmers' Response to Price and Non-Price Factors for Various Commodity Groups and Anatomy of Inflation under New Economic Environment

    Authors: Desai, Bhupat M; Namboodiri, N V;

    Reference No: CMA0785TEC Pages: 31 Published on: 1, January, 2000

    Abstract: Considering the new economic environment this note analyses farmers' output and marketed surplus responses to barter terms of trade which is likely to change in the wake of de-protection of trade and industry, besides non-price factors for four/three major agricultural commodity group. It also, in the same context, evaluates ... More

  4. Irrigation Development: Rationale, Achievements, Problems and their Solutions

    Authors: Desai, Bhupat M; Namboodiri, N V;

    Reference No: CMA0786TEC Pages: 14 Published on: 1, January, 2000

    Abstract: This note deals with (a) the theory of leading inputs, (b) irrigation potential, its development and utilization under successive five years plans, (c) the size and composition of public investment in harnessing various sources of irrigation and their benefits in general terms, (d) major problem-areas of development of irrigation as ... More

  5. Macro Organization and Management Model for Implementation of Technical Change in Agriculture

    Authors: Desai, Bhupat M;

    Reference No: CMA0787TEC Pages: 5 Published on: 1, January, 2000

    Abstract: This note first discusses which of the three strategies of extensive farming, intensive agriculture, and seed and resource centred technical change may be chosen. Reasons for its choice are also briefly indicated, besides stating what major factors determine it. It then goes on to identify organizational and management framework for ... More

  6. Union Budget for Agriculture: From Retrogression to Progression?

    Authors: Desai, Bhupat M; Namboodiri, N V;

    Reference No: CMA0788TEC Pages: 7 Published on: 1, January, 2000

    Abstract: This note first provides a rationale for why union budget may catalyse developing agriculture even though this sector is a state subject. It then discusses major strengths and weaknesses of some of the recent union budgets to raise a question whether they have initiated a process of retrogression or progression. ... More

  7. Agricultural Research System and Public Policy

    Authors: Desai, Bhupat M; Ali, Ifzal;

    Reference No: ECO0257TEC Pages: 15 Published on: 1, January, 1979

    Abstract: This note deals with the following questions: (a) Why technological, particularly biological, innovations are needed in agriculture? (b) What contributions does technology make to growth in agricultural productivity? What public investment is needed to develop new technology? (c) How do these contributions of technology compare with the contributions of extending ... More

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