sought to link rural milk production to urban milk marketing through dairy cooperatives. In July 1970 with technical assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the programme was launched as Operation Flood (OF). It was the world's biggest dairy development programme which made India, a milk-deficient nation, the largest milk producer in the world, by 1998. It made dairy farming India’s largest self-sustainable rural employment generator
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victim of typical interest business “Dadan”, which exploit them instead of benefiting them. Lots of vegetables decay in rural area because farmers do not find enough buyers who will buy their goods, whereas city dwellers pay extra to meet their vegetable need. Besides, poor transportation infrastructure and transportation system attribute to inefficient flow of agriculture goods from rural area to urban. While producers are on one extreme of value chain, consumers are on
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4 Agriculture 4.1 An important aspect of ‘inclusive growth’ in the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007–12) is its target of 4 per cent per annum growth in GDP from agriculture and allied sectors. This target is not only necessary to achieve the overall GDP growth target of 9 per cent per annum without undue inflation, but it is an important element of ‘inclusiveness’ since the global experience of growth and poverty reduction shows that GDP growth originating in agriculture is at least twice as effective
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Rural Marketing Quite clearly, large Indian companies have begun looking at rural markets seriously. Some of them are even developing exclusive marketing strategies to tap this huge mass of consumers. Of India's one billion plus population, nearly 70 per cent live in non-urban or rural areas. According to a National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) study, there are as many "middle income and above" households in rural areas as there are in urban areas. There are almost twice as many
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practically all aspects of Mozambican political and economic activities and the Mozambicans had received insufficient education or training, the gap left when the Portuguese abandoned the country could not be filled by Mozambicans. (Source G) As the marketing system used to be dominated by Portuguese and Indian merchants, when they left, the system nearly collapsed. As a result agricultural goods could not
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have the power to help their families and entire communities escape poverty. Working for 60 years in Bangladesh, CARE has extensive programming experience in a range of sectors including food security; women’s empowerment; health and nutrition; agriculture and natural resources; disaster risk reduction; education; HIV/AIDS; emergency response; and urban poverty reduction. CARE Bangladesh is currently implementing 24 projects in partnership with 63 local and national NGOs, receiving funding from a
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wthQ1. The performance of Indian agriculture has improved for better in the years since 2004-05. Discuss the factors behind these outcomes. Agriculture provides employment to over 50% of the workforce and the forward and backward linkages associated with its growth have a considerable effect on the incomes of the non agricultural sector. Contributing not only to the overall growth of the economy, but it's role in reducing poverty by providing employment and food security, makes it one of the
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gender constraints (Sindi, 2008). Microfinance institutions are those informal financial systems offering such services. Studies on Agribusiness Oriented Small Scale Enterprises in Kenya have reported that access to formal finance; supply inputs; and marketing quandaries are the three principal limitations which hamper agricultural growth and development in the country. A recent research carried out in Kenya, established that the majority of agribusiness-oriented small scale
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problem, purpose of the study, objective of the study, research questions, and significance of the study, limitations and the scope of the study. 1.1 Background Information Kenya’s economy is heavily dependent on Agriculture with almost 75% of Kenyans earning from farming. Agriculture contributes over 30% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and usually brings in over 50% of foreign currency earnings. It provides raw materials for Kenya’s agro-industries which accounts for about 70% of all its industrial
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and J. U. Ahmed4 1 Former 2 Former M.S. Students, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh M.S. Student, Dept. of Agribusiness and Marketing, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh 3 Former Student, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh 4Associate professor, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Policy, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh
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