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Factors Affecting Nutritional Status of India : An Economic Analysis with Special Reference to Agricultural Performance

Singh, Krishna M.; Ahmad, Nasim; Sinha, D.; Mishra, Rewati - 2019

Indian economy is the fastest growing economy of the world surpassing China during financial year 2015 and 2018. GDP of the country was recorded 7.1% in 2016 and it declined to 6.7% in 2017. Agriculture sector is underperforming for combating malnutrition of a large proportion of the population....

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Nutritional-Sensitive and Sustainable Agricultural Development - An Overview

Singh, Krishna M. - 2020

Nutrition and Agriculture are interlinked with each other. Sustainable agricultural development is agricultural development that contributes to improving resource efficiency, strengthening resilience and securing social equity/responsibility of agriculture and food systems in order to ensure...

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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I …

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Rural Labour Employment and Livelihoods in Tribal Villages of Eastern India

kumar, Abhay - 2020

eastern India. The study is based on the high frequency panel data collected under the ICAR-ICRISAT project on Village … Dynamics Studies in eastern India from 2010 to 2014. The findings revealed that the work participation rate of landless labour …

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Determinants of Farm Household Socio-Economic Vulnerability Induced by Climate Change in Maharashtra, India – Regression Tree Approach

Adhav, Chaitanya Ashok; R, Sendhil; Chandel, Balwant S.; … - 2023

Climate change is a serious threat to Maharashtra’s agrarian economy due to persistent droughts, floods, irregular rainfall, etc. In this context, the present study was carried out during 2020–21 in three districts of Maharashtra, viz. Parbhani, Sindhudurg and Ahmednagar based on the extent...

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Role of Women in Agricultural Sector of Bihar : A Socio-Economic Mapping

Singh, Krishna M.; Ahmad, Nasim; Shekhar, Dibyanshu; … - 2020

The multi-dimensional role of women in agriculture cannot be denied as they contribute in every agricultural operation from sowing to harvesting of crops and are also active in allied sectors. Participation of women in total workforce was assessed 27.44 per cent as against 72.56 per cent by male...

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Women's Participation in Bihar Agriculture : Evidences from Cost of Cultivation Data

Kumari, Priyanka; Singh, Krishna M.; Ahmad, Nasim; … - 2020

approaches. According to the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC), there were 244.9 million households in India of which 179 …

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Agriculture and Child Under-Nutrition in India: A State Level Analysis

Vepa, Swarna Sadasivam; Umashankar, Vinodhini; Bhavani, R.V. - Madras School of Economics - 2014

undernutrition in rural India. However, public policy has to promote social provisioning of sanitation and health and make sure that …

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Rationalising fertiliser subsidy in India : key issues and policy options

Gulati, Ashok; Banerjee, Pritha - 2015

and Korea, or now emerging economies like China and India. The type of support, of course, varies widely across countries …. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone … and a sizeable portion of budgetary support goes towards fertiliser subsidy. Fertiliser subsidy in India has succeeded in …

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Distributional impacts of irrigation-induced agricultural development in a semi-subsistence economy : new evidence

Athukorala, Wasantha; Wilson, Clevo - In: Environmental economics and policy studies 19 (2017) 1, pp. 59-75

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