, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean … energy in India in the next six years. In a country that generates more than 60 percent of its power by burning coal, and … country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set …

network expansion in rural India on adoption of high yielding variety seeds and chemical fertilizers. Our empirical strategy …

golden opportunity to change the face of UP's agriculture and thus the fate of millions that depend on it. UP with a … population of more than 220 million is the most populous state of India. As per Census 2011, 59 percent of its workforce was … engaged in agriculture; average holding size was just 0.76 ha with 92 percent of holdings being small and marginal; and 29 …

. Agriculture growth was around 4.7 per cent, which was above the national average of 3.6 per cent and in the latest five years, its … performance was even more commendable, with an average annual growth rate of 7.1 per cent. However, agriculture productivity of … in yield augmenting inputs such as fertilisers, certified seeds, tube wells and farm machines. Bihar's agriculture has …

agriculture. During the five years from 2010-11 to 2014-15, the contribution of agriculture to the state GDP recorded an annual … average growth of a mere 0.9 per cent. This paper studies the composition, sources and potential drivers of agriculture growth …

per annum, which is the highest growth rate registered in agriculture by any major state of India over a ten year period … a lesson worth learning for many states of India who are struggling to get their agriculture moving. In this paper, we …Agriculture growth in Madhya Pradesh (MP) during the decade long period of 2005-06 to 2014-15 was around 9.7 per cent …

. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone …Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised … agriculture in the past, be they developed countries like the United States of America or countries in the European Union or Japan …

Rural indebtedness and dependence on private moneylenders is an age-old problem in India. For more than 100 years now …, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural … to answer the question, "Is the agenda of expansion of institutional finance to agriculture unfinished?" The findings in …