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...

Declining profitability of rice cultivation, changing patterns of food demand in the rapidly growing cities and liberalized Indian economy putting challenges before the planners and policy makers to maintain a steady growth of food grain production to feed the growing population and at the same...