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Dr. Banarsi Lal Agriculture is the largest sector of the Indian economy. Presently this sector contributes 19.9 per cent to the overall Gross DomesticProduct (GDP). This sector is very important for the social security in terms of food, nutrition and employment.This sector employs the largest workforce although there is less income as compared to services and industries. The farm sector is often confronted with the crops productivity shocks. The climate change has adverse impact on the farm sector and the […]
National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad, has invited applications for Internship, an experiential learning programme to integrate knowledge and theory of agricultural extension management with practical application
The electronic spot market has introduced technological innovations to agricultural commodity market trading through the electronic National Agriculture Market. To assess the role of the electronic spot market in price discovery, this paper explores the price efficiency test between select commodities’ spot and futures markets. While we find that the spot plays an instrumental
Using the unit-level data from various rounds of the Employment and Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey Office, the first consistent time series of the average real farm income per cultivator for 18 major Indian states for 1987–88, 1993–94, 1999–2000, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2009–10, and 2011–12 is presented. Using this data, two sets of issues are studied. First, how