Plight of Indian Farmers with Respect to current Credit Facilities Plight of the Indian Farmer India is an agrarian country and around 60% of its people directly or indirectly depend upon agriculture. Agriculture in India is often attributed as gambling with monsoons because of its almost exclusive dependency on precipitation from monsoons. The failure of these monsoons can lead to a series of droughts, lack of better prices, and exploitation of the farmers by middlemen, all of which have led
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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & COOPERATION) DIRECTORATE OF MARKETING & INSPECTION BRANCH HEAD OFFICE NAGPUR MRPC-70 1 POST-HARVEST PROFILE OF SUNFLOWER CONTENTS Page No. 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 1.2 2.0 Origin Importance 4-5 4 5 6-9 6 7 9 10-36 10 10 11 14 14 25 25 26 27 29 31 32 33 PRODUCTION 2.1 2.2 2.3 Major producing countries in the world Major producing states in India Zone-wise major commercial varieties 3.0 POST-HARVEST MANAGENENT
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as follows: Besides performing the usual commercial banking functions, banks in developing countries play an effective role in their economic development. The majority of people in such countries are poor, unemployed and engaged in traditional agriculture. Image Courtesy : worldpropertychannel.com/news-assets/Commercial-Lending-bank.jpg There is acute shortage of capital. People lack initiative and enterprise. Means of transport are undeveloped. Industry is depressed. The commercial banks help
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DAIRY DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN DAIRY REPORTS DAIRY DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN Umm e Zia, T. Mahmood and M.R. Ali FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 2011 Author Umm e Zia is the Managing Director of Cynosure Consultants in Islamabad. She has supported international donors and governments in undertaking rural development and agriculture value chain projects in over ten countries. T. Mahmood is a dairy consultant based in Lahore, Pakistan. He also serves as a visiting
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BASIX positions itself remarkably as microfinance or as other may call it a rural livelihoods promotions institution (outstanding institution). It has a strong leadership skills, strong culture as well and most of all a strong process. This institution was targeting borrowers at remote locations, theses borrowers are approximately 60,000 borrowers distributed across 4000 villages upon 30 district, and these areas considered rural areas. In addition, these borrowers either represented themselves or represented
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Environmental :- I. Economic factors:- The agricultural and rural development has enabled our country to achieve self sufficiency in food production and we are now exporting a variety of agricultural commodities to foreign countries. Favorable monsoons during the last 10 years have let to increase in crop yields and rural income. In addition, diversification of a agriculture, development of village industries, migration of rural people into cities, remittance of money, family members settled
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development accepts climate change to be among the factors influencing rural poverty. Climate change affects the globe as a whole but its effects is felt much more by poor people in third world countries because they rely much on natural resources as a source of their livelihoods. Poor rural communities rely much on livestock keeping and agriculture which are climate-sensitive sectors of the economy. We have to adapt and employ mitigation strategies to respond
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Zambia’s agriculture has the potential of enhancing economic growth and reducing poverty. Good agricultural policies and a well performing agricultural sector translates into significant improvements in the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment generation, and broadens the country’s tax base since the livelihoods of the majority of Zambians depend on agricultural-related activities such as farming. The sector, if well developed, should contribute significantly to welfare improvement
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“RURAL MARKETING” Executive Summary A debate continued for a long time amongst the Indian marketers, both practitioners & academicians, on the justification for the existence of the distinct discipline of rural marketing. Consequently, two schools of thought emerged. The first school belived that the products/services, marketing tools & strategies that are successful in urban areas, could be transplanted with little or no more modifications in rural areas. However, the second school
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seen as a space for catalysing transformative social change. Instead, there remains in the notion of telecentres for development a perpetuation of market-led approaches, wherein telecentres are viewed as a strategic means for expanding markets in rural areas, especially for corporates. In this approach, poor communities are repositioned as an opportunity for business, with ICTs as the most effective way of connecting them to the global market system. This espouses a version of inclusion that instumentalises
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