Indian journal of agricultural economics最新文献

{"title":"Income, Savings and Investment Behaviour of Small Farmers","authors":"K. Chauhan, S. Mundle, D. Jadhav","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.234591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.234591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"427 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133723818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Market Integration and Price Forecasting of Apple in India","authors":"M. H. Wani, R. Paul, N. H. Bazaz, M. Manzoor","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.230026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.230026","url":null,"abstract":"The current study seeks to explore the degree of market integration through co-integration analysis on the wholesale weekly prices of three commercial varieties of Apple (American, Delicious and Moharaji) and their two important commercial grades (Special and Super) collected from five regional fruit markets of India during September, 2005 to February, 2013. The results reveal that apple markets are perfectly integrated, and the Delhi market is the dominant one. In the short run, a disequilibrium ranges from 2.1 to 96.9 per cent among all the varieties and grades of the selected fruits. However, the study finds no cointegration within two pairs of markets (Delhi-Srinagar and Bangalore-Kolkata) for the American Super variety and within one pair (Bangalore-Kolkata) for Moharaji Special. The Granger Causality Test reveals 39 and 18 bi-directional and uni-directional causations respectively under different market situations. Further, Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) results reveal a combination of positive and negative coefficients, though positive coefficients exceed the negative coefficients.","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121847055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"District Level Sustainable Livestock Production Index: Tool for Livestock Development Planning in Rajasthan","authors":"P. Chand, S. Sirohi","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.204806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.204806","url":null,"abstract":"Since the past two decades, the concept of sustainability has increasingly occupied the centre stage for the development of the agriculture and allied sectors. With the manifestation of stagnating or declining productivity levels, widening regional disparities and the emergence of environmental externalities, the concerns emerged that development process should be sustainable, i.e., it should be environmentally non-degrading, technically appropriate, economically viable and socially acceptable (FAO, 1991). Before targeting the policy interventions to maintain/enhance the sustainability of a crop or livestock production system, it is imperative to examine whether or not certain necessary conditions essential for sustainable development are present in a given region or ecosystem. The major approaches used in the literature to assess the sustainability of a biological production system in a particular region include, estimation of total factor productivity (Ehui and Spencer, 1990; Rosegrant and Evenson, 1995; Kumar and Mittal, 2006), computation of composite indices covering varied dimensions of sustainability (Saleth and Swaminathan, 1992; Yadav and Rai, 2001; Calker et al., 2004; Sen and Hatai, 2007; Singh and Hiremath, 2010) and Response-Inducing Sustainability Evaluation (RISE) (Hani et al., 2003). While each of these techniques has its own utility, the indexing approach provides a simple practical tool for indicating a set of projects and policies that can be implemented to address the problem areas that impede sustainability. In India, the empirical application of indexing approach has been made in the context of livelihood security, focusing on the ecological and economic dimensions related to crop production. Although in a recent study by Singh and Hiremath (2010), recognising the importance of dairying in economic and nutritional security of rural livelihoods in Gujarat; milk yield and per capita milk availability were taken as indicators in the construction of district level Sustainable Livelihood Security Index (SLSI), but","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"273 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114274168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of modern farming technology on rural employment in Saurashtra.","authors":"D. Desai, G. A. Patel, R. Patel","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.233746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.233746","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132488932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rural Non-Farm Employment, Income Distribution and Poverty: Micro Level Evidence from Punjab","authors":"K. Vatta, R. Sidhu","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.204720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.204720","url":null,"abstract":"The non-farm sector is fast emerging as an important component of developing rural economies, with an increasing number of rural workers seeking their livelihoods in this sector. The arguments for paying attention to this sector are gaining ground due to its perceived potential for absorbing a growing rural labour force, slowing down of rural-urban migration contributing to national income growth and promoting a more equitable distribution of income (Lanjouw and Lanjouw, 2001). There is increasing evidence that majority of the rural households rely on multiple economic activities with almost 60 per cent of the rural household income in South Asia coming from non-farm sources (Ellis, 1999). The rural households benefit even from low non-farm earnings during the distress situations of low or fluctuating seasonal as well as long-term unemployment in agriculture. The rural non-farm (RNF) sector can interact favourably to alleviate rural poverty with a greater likelihood of the poor households employed in this sector (Lanjouw, 1999; Lanjouw and Shariff, 2004). This sector also offers some means of economic security to women who are otherwise not able to participate in the agricultural wage labour market (Adams, 2000). Non-farm income, in a broader sense tends to decrease rural income inequality as compared to agricultural income, which usually induces income inequality due to the skewed distribution of agricultural land amongst the rural households (Adams and He, 1995). RNF sector provides a backstop source of income to the poor whose options in agriculture have been exhausted and provides them with a safety net to escape from sliding deeper into poverty (Lanjouw, 2001). A decline in profitability as well as in the labour absorption capacity of agriculture also forces one to look into other options of rural development than in agriculture. The farm sector in Punjab witnessed a stupendous growth of more than five per cent per annum till the early 1990s, after which, a significant slowdown in agricultural productivity, a rise in the cost of cultivation and a decline in farm profitability was witnessed. While farm income could only grow marginally by 1.21","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121818003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors Influencing Capital Formation in Agriculture","authors":"B. Misra, S. C. Mallick","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.234113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.234113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116118979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic Optima in Resource Allocation for the Cultivators of Kanjhawala Block","authors":"A. S. Sirohi, A. Gangwar","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.232052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.232052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130959543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Green Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture: Policy Options Towards Farmer Adoption","authors":"P. Devi, S. Solomon, M. Jayasree","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.229940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.229940","url":null,"abstract":"Bio-fertilisers (BF) and bio-control agents (BCA) are the biotechnological interventions tried to improve crop production and protection for sustainable agricultural development. This paper based on a study, conducted in the state of Kerala, depending both on primary and secondary data, analyses the consumption pattern and farmer responses to the technology and cases thereof. A total of 840 farmers were surveyed using a structured, pretested questionnaire. Later on, the crop-wise use was estimated through a post stratification of the data. Logit analysis was done to study the adoption behaviour of the respondents. In Kerala, BF/BCA is produced by the public sector, private sector and NGO, and is distributed either directly to the farmers or indirectly through the retail shops. A sizeable part of production is sold to the Department of Agriculture itself as part of department schemes where the BF/BCA is given at subsidy. The analysis on the level of adoption of BF/BCA showed that the percentage of adoption is more in the case of BCA when compared to BF. The adoption of BF was found to be less than 1 per cent and for BCA it was around 11 per cent. The logistic regression analysis to study the adoption behaviour of the respondents (rice farmers) showed that educational level, farming experience, returns from farming and extension of technical support received by the farmers are the major factors that influenced the decision making with regard to the adoption of bioagents. Though subsidies facilitate the economic access to the technology, it did not ensure the sustained adoption and scientifically proper application. The analysis supports the statistically significant influence of technical support in the adoption of the technology, which underlines the importance of infrastructural and technological support mechanism in the wider adoption of the technology. Thus subsidies can be considered as a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the sustained technology adoption.","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133864406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economics of Sugarcane Production using Ecofriendly Technology in Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu","authors":"R. Thennarasu, V. Banumathy","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.204737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.204737","url":null,"abstract":"The chemical pathway has been pursued year after year for the sole purpose of increasing food grain production. The over use of chemicals to intensify crop production led to poisoning people and animals as well as polluting the environment. In areas where a high fertilizer dose was used, the problem of salinity, water logging due to the depletion of organic matter and nutritional imbalances in soils has started surfacing and it is now threatening the sustainability of agricultural production. The other problem linked to the over use of pesticides is the contamination of soil and water sources including the aquatic system. Persistent pesticides like BHC and DDT remain in the eco system for a longer period and pose a great danger to the soil fauna and flora. On the one hand, the inorganic fertiliser consumption is continuously increasing and agricultural systems have encountered various kinds of environmental problems and decreased soil fertility etc. On the other hand, our population is also increasing. While considering the population explosion, the foodgrain demand is estimated to be around 260-264 M.T by 2020 A.D. The use of bio-inputs is the best way to reduce fertiliser consumption, to feed the growing population and to retain soil fertility and productivity. The average bio-fertiliser consumption in India is 0.04 kg/ha. Among bio-fertilisers, major growth has occurred with phosphate solubilising micro organisms, which account for about 45 per cent of total bio-fertiliser production and use. The present consumption level of bio-pesticides has increased from around one per cent share in the Indian pesticide market in 2001 to around 2.5 per cent currently and it is expected to reach 12-15 per cent by the end of 2010, mainly through the chorus of Organic Farming (Fertiliser Statistics, 2005; Tamil Nadu Economic Appraisal, 2005). In Tamil Nadu, the usage of bio-inputs has picked up since the inception of integrated pest management in 1985. At present, the production of bio-pesticides is","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133872039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of MNREGA on Employment of Disadvantaged Groups, Wage Rates and Migration in Rajasthan","authors":"Mrutyunjay Swain, Shreekant Sharma","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.230042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.230042","url":null,"abstract":"The paper assesses the effectiveness of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) in generating employment for disadvantaged groups like SCs, STs and women, creation of durable assets, improving the agricultural and non-agricultural wage rates, enhancing the level of food security and controlling the out migration in rural Rajasthan. The study has also assessed the effects of MNREGA in terms of creation of durable assets, improvement in the agricultural and non-agricultural wage rates and containing out migration in rural Rajasthan which have potential positive impacts on vulnerable groups. The paper also analyses the perceptions of MNREGA workers about its role in improving the food security and the socio-economic conditions of participating households. Based on secondary level data analysis and the survey covering 200 participants and 50 non-participants from 10 villages of 5 districts, the study finds that the scheme has positively affected the agricultural and nonagricultural wage rates, reduced the extent of food insecurity and controlled to some extent the level of out migration in rural Rajasthan. Overall, it has promoted financial inclusion in the region. However, there is a declining trend in extent of participation of the SCs and the STs in MNREGA works during the reference years 2008-09 to 2010-11. But there has been slight improvement in participation of women in MNREGA works in Rajasthan.","PeriodicalId":273401,"journal":{"name":"Indian journal of agricultural economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115996015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}