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Agricultural Value Chains in India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Agricultural Value Chains in India

This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities in India. It is based on the understanding that agriculture is an integrated system that connects farming with logistics, processing and marketing. Farmer’s welfare being central to any agricultural policy makes it very pertinent to study how a value chain works and can be strengthened further to realize this policy goal. This book adds value to the existing research by studying the value chains end-to-end across a wide spectrum of agricultural commo...

International Trade and Food Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

International Trade and Food Security

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-08
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  • Publisher: CABI

This book explores structural changes in India's agrifood systems during the next ten to twenty years. The dynamics in the agrifood sector is explored in the context of the overall economy, taking into account agricultural and trade policies and their impacts on national and global markets. The contributors draw on qualitative and quantitative approaches, using both a national model - to focus on urban-rural relations and income distribution - and an international model to focus on patterns of economic growth and international trade.

Agriculture and Food Technology in Human Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Agriculture and Food Technology in Human Life

In this book we are discussing of efficient and smart technology developed through advanced agricultural sciences for the benefit of farmers who can produce quality food in abundance.

Policy framework for contract farming: An alternate to Aarthi system in Pakistan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

Policy framework for contract farming: An alternate to Aarthi system in Pakistan

Global agricultural production is undergoing a remarkable shift due to globalization and market liberalization (Setboonsarng et al., 2008). Food markets are transforming from a ‘non-programmed to programmed’ regime stemming from overwhelming changes in demand patterns happening concurrently with variations in production dynamics internationally (Oostendorp, 2018). This presents both the challenge and opportunity to change and adapt to this more structured world to reap benefits for both smallholder farmers and exporters (Setboonsarng et al., 2008).

The dragon and the elephant
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 578

The dragon and the elephant

China and India are the most extraordinary economic success stories of the developing world. Both nations’ economies have grown dramatically over the past few decades, elevating them from two of the world’s poorest countries into projected economic superpowers. As a result, the numbers of Chinese and Indians living in poverty have rapidly fallen and per capita incomes in China and India have quadrupled and doubled, respectively. This book investigates the reasons for these staggering accomplishments and the lessons that can be applied both to other developing nations and to the problem of poverty that remains in these two countries. The contributors pay particular attention to agriculture ...

Food for All
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1063

Food for All

This book assesses the prospects for achieving the sustainable development goals, and the role of international organizations in achieving them, in light of recent economic, medical, and environmental developments.

Compilation of Yojana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1578

Compilation of Yojana

A compilation of all the issues of 2015.

Artificial Intelligence and IoT-Based Technologies for Sustainable Farming and Smart Agriculture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

Artificial Intelligence and IoT-Based Technologies for Sustainable Farming and Smart Agriculture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-01-08
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

As technology continues to saturate modern society, agriculture has started to adopt digital computing and data-driven innovations. This emergence of “smart” farming has led to various advancements in the field, including autonomous equipment and the collection of climate, livestock, and plant data. As connectivity and data management continue to revolutionize the farming industry, empirical research is a necessity for understanding these technological developments. Artificial Intelligence and IoT-Based Technologies for Sustainable Farming and Smart Agriculture provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of critical technological solutions within the farming industry. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as crop monitoring, precision livestock farming, and agronomic data processing, this book is ideally designed for farmers, agriculturalists, product managers, farm holders, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, industrialists, governmental professionals, researchers, academicians, and students seeking current research on technological applications within agriculture and farming.

Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 545

Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

Since 2006, global food prices have fluctuated greatly around an increasing trend and price spikes were observed for key food commodities such as rice, wheat, and maize.

Business Standard India 2008
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Business Standard India 2008

India has entered the unfamiliar and exhilarating territory of success, qualified though this success may be. An economic world where India is not a key player is now impossible to imagine. Challenges-old and new abound and a lively policy debate is needed to address these and pave the way ahead. Against this backdrop, Business Standard brings to you the first of an annual series, committed to understanding this new India, and contributing to the policy debate. Business Standard India 2008, the inaugural volume, focuses on the sectors that excited the imagination in 2007, and provides a vision for the years ahead.