India has one of the largest food subsidy programmes in the world that has created a relatively effective social safety net but is also under increasing criticism because of its large contributions to government budget deficits, economic inefficiency and poor targeting. The Food Corporation of...

While fertilizer subsidy has probably been one of the most hotly debated issues in the country over the past two decades but debate reached a new height following a recommendation by the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) in its latest Economic Outlook 2012/13 that “subsidies...

This paper provides a brief summary of the results of growth performance and projections of demand for forest products in India and uses these results to provide a background for discussion of implications for forest policy and management. The trends indicate that the production of most forest...

The purpose of this study is to examine the trends in India’s growth rates and interdependency between agricultural and industrial sectors of Indian economy. A dual economic growth model was developed to investigate the relationship between the two sectors and factors affecting Indian economic...

This paper attempts to investigate the performance of Indian cotton sector and impact of economic and biological factors on acreage and yield of cotton in the major cotton growing states of the country using time series secondary data. The results indicate that the cotton production in the...

The paper attempts to find determinants of variation in performance of the 19 institutes of cooperative management (ICM) representing the in-housetraining facilities within the cooperative sector in India by examining the distribution of property rights and incentives. The property rights are so...