Since the late 1980s, technological advances and policy reforms have opened up new opportunities for growth in India's seed and agricultural biotechnology industries. The impacts of such changes have been significant in India's cotton sector, but less so for the country's main cereal crops,...

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview -- SECTION I: Policy Perspective -- Chapter 2. Modern Organised Retail and Its Impact on Agriculture -- Chapter 3. Contribution of Organized Retailing to Agriculture Distribution System: Prospects and Challenges -- Chapter 4. Retail Trade in Agriculture,...

With the growth of private investment in developing-country agriculture, new advances in the biological sciences, and rapid integration of developing countries into the global trading system, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have become an important concern for policymakers, corporate...