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Apart from other programmes of dairy development, Operation Flood was launched in the country in early seventies with a view to bringing white revolution and providing marketing support to milk producers. Notwithstanding the institutional intervention through establishing a network of milk co-operatives, the role of unorganized and informal sector continues to be crucial due mainly to the special character of the product and existence of local milk markets. In ...
Asian countries have made significant strides during the last few decades in transforming their agriculture and rural economies. In spite of the wide-ranging institutional changes and impressive achievements in food security, these economies still house bulk of the world’s poor. In the changing global economic scenario, they are now facing new challenges of improving food and nutrition security at the household level, poverty reduction and sustainable ...
The book is an outcome of a collaborative study addressing the highest priority issue which India faces today in agricultural sector policies. The main objective of the study was to document and analyze the impacts of past and current policies relating to trade, marketing, pricing, poverty reduction and employment generation, and also to identify policies/strategies in respect of trade, domestic markets, output and input pricing and other policy support. The ...
The book entitled Livelihood, Income and Productivity in Fishery: The Synergy and Choice is a much needed publication of present time. The huge green revolution in India that stormed in the last quarter of seventies has now started withering out in a face of unbearable population pressure of 1.2 billion, eroding of natural resources, reverse transformation of agriculture and non-agriculture workers (53%) in rural area itself, narrowing down of land-man ratio, ...