The increasing urbanization in India over time has resulted in deceleration or negative growth in productivity of land and resultant decline in availability of food-grains for the consuming population. The growing urban population with near stagnant productivity of food crops has raised several...

Although the Government has introduced a number of crop-oriented schemes to improve the output of various slow growth foodgrain crops such as pulses and coarse cereals, the success of these schemes will largely depend on the extent of adoption as the farmers grow these crops on poor and...