The paper identifies the effect of changing patenting priorities in the emerging global leather trade. A landscape of invention portfolios generated through research and development in global leather sector has been investigated covering a three-year aggregated reference period of 1998-2000...

Continuous fragmentation of land, lack of public investments and above all shifting of food consumption pattern towards high value products particularly fruits and vegetable have made India's grain-based cropping pattern non-remunerative. In the present era of globalization, horticulture appears...