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Microfinance or more specifically microcredit through self-help groups is one of the important instruments for bringing improvement in livelihood for the people who do not have any collateral to be eligible for formal credit. Its role in rural development has been studied in many developing countries and accepted by the scholars. Evidences are also present on how microfinance has empowered people, especially poor women in the society. But the spread of ...
A modern discipline, Agricultural Economics generally applies the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock. The discipline, known as agronomics, is a branch of economics, which specifically deals with land usage. It focuses on maximizing a good soil-ecosystem. Throughout the 20th century, the discipline got expanded and the current scope of the discipline much broader. Agricultural economics now includes a variety of applied areas, having ...
Agricultural production provides income employment and food at affordable prices as-well-as raw material for the processing industry and foreign exchange from exports. Creating a sustainable agricultural development path means improving the quality of life in rural areas, ensuring enough food for present and future generations and generating sufficient income for farmers.
The present book has been compiled from the work done by research scholars from different ...
Farming system is a resource management strategy to achieve economic and sustained production to meet diverse requirement to farm household while presenting resources bare and maintaining a high level environmental quality. The simple tool to assess the costs and returns of the crops is cost cultivation by using various cost concepts.
The present book entitled “Economics of Farming System” provide the detailed methodology to workout the costs and ...
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Phycomycetes. 2. Ascomycetes. 3. Fungi Imperfect. 4. Mycelia sterilia.
Forest Research Institute (FRI) Dehradun India's premier institute of its type, was established in 1906, making a modest beginning with five branches, namely Silviculture, Forest Entomology, Forest Chemistry, forst Botany and Forest Utilization, commonly known as economic branch. Published in 1925, the present monograph is an note on the origin and development of the economic Branch of FRI and its research and allied activities in different areas such as wood ...
The physiology of flowering trees has 13 chapters. The first chapter deals with growth and its coordination in trees. The second chapter deals with root system studies in fruit trees. The third chapter deals with morphogenesis and integration in tree organs. The fourth chapter deals with dormancy and germination. The fifth chapter deals with juvenility and senescence. The sixth chapter deals with flowering. The seventh chapter deals with pollination in fruit ...
An important, throughly illustrated, and exhaustive work that lists, classifies and describes all the known fish fauna of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
"Offers a systematic enumeration of the entire range of fishes under two broad classes - Elasmobranchii and Teleostomi 28 different orders, various sub-orders and families, and over 800 species. All the necessary details and data have been provided for each of the species under its description. And for an easier ...
