In India, the demand for table eggs is growing and supply will be short of demand in the coming years. Apart from domestic consumption, the country is also making headway on the export market, particularly in the Gulf region. However, a better structure of the poultry industry is needed. Poultry...

The study assessed the regional disparities in Andhra Pradesh in food habits and nutritional intake in three different regions namely Coastal, Rayalaseema and Telangana in the backdrop of demand for separate Telangana state. The analysis revealed that consumption of most food items was less than...

Andhra Pradesh is one of the largest state in India, with agriculture as a major source of income for about 60% of its population. In the last 50 years, the annual growth rate of agriculture has been 2.88%, which is far below the target growth of 4% per annum. Further, Andhra Pradesh is divided...

This paper reviews the current scenario of rural banking and examines the developments in rural banking in the post-liberalisation period. The paper highlighted the transformation in reaching the rural sector by commercial banks in a competitive atmosphere and its impact on rural/priority sector...

With more than 70% of the Indian population still residing in rural India, strengthening of the rural economy holds the key for an all-encompassing economic development of the country. In the wake of limited growth in agriculture, the rise of the Rural Non Farm Sector (RNFS) is imperative to...

The WTO regime has thronged new opportunities as well as challenges to Indian agriculture. The paper reviews impact of WTO regime on Indian agriculture competitiveness in comparison to developed countries. As majority of Indian farmers are small and marginal there is greater scope in organizing...

Chickpea is an important pulse crop in India. The production of chickpea is stagnate and its variability is increased in the past three decades. The present study is an attempt to examine the pattern of growth, variability and the sources of growth and instability in production of chickpea at...

In India, pulses annual production ranges from 11-15 million tons with per hectare of yield of 595 kg. India contributes about 93% of the total global pigeonpea, 68% of chickpea and 32% of lentil production. However India’s rank in productivity is low that is 24th in chickpea, 9th in...

In India, agriculture contributes to 67.9% of employment but it only contributes to 38.34% of rural GDP and about 12% to Indias GDP. It shows that even though structural transformation in GDP taken place rapidly, transformation in employment is very slow especially in rural areas. Keeping this,...

Given the slow structural transformation of employment in rural areas in India, this paper tries to probe into the structural transformation in semi-arid tropics of India, by using high frequency longitudinal panel data from 1975 to 2010. The results show that, up to early 1980s, structural...