Download or read book The Role of the State and Agricultural Marketing Reform in India written by Renu Kohli and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book India s Agricultural Marketing written by Nilabja Ghosh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the Indian government and governments of several other developing countries. Marketing reforms, it is claimed, can be a crucial answer to solving the problem of rural poverty in agrarian economies where large sections of populace are engaged in low paying agriculture. On a wider front, these reforms could help in providing growth impetus to an economy and even the global economy at large. Yet, the subject of liberalizing agricultural markets is also part of a broad and perhaps a bitter political debate between national and sub-national policy makers and academic discourses in India and other countries. A clearer understanding and a possible resolution of the issues involved will be decidedly useful. The experience of India, one of the largest and most agriculture-dominated economies, will undoubtedly provide valuable lessons not only for steering the domestic economic policy but also for other countries to set their own policy agenda. The book attempts to capture the evolving reality in a large and diverse country and presents an objective evaluation to enable aspiring investors and those in policy making, food business and civil society to make more informed assessment and decision.

Download or read book Agricultural Marketing written by S.B. Verma and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book has been prepared to make a comprehensive knowledge on Agricultural Marketing'. It provides recent feed back to the readers. It is a compendium of the distinguished personalities, researchers, agricul-turists, scientists and academicians. The book depicts some important aspects: E-Agriculture: A new approach Agricultural marketing in India Indian Agricultural Market Reforms Alternative Agricultural Marketing System Changing Scenario in Agricultural Marketing. Agricultural Marketing: Thrust and Challenges Agricultural Marketing: Problems and Prospects Changing Profile of Farm product Marketing Food and Agricultural Marketing in India WTO and Indian Agriculture Agricultural products export in India Regulated Agricultural Market Impact of Liberalisation on Agricultural Trade Role of ICT in Sugarcane Marketing Development Export Potential of Agricultural Products Recent efforts towards agriculture marketing system Boosting Agricultural Marketing Indian Floriculture Marketing Indian Lac Marketing Scenario.

Download or read book To Reform and to Procure written by Kartik Misra and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 2000s, many Indian states started reforming their agricultural marketing policies and allowed private traders to buy directly from farmers outside the state-regulated market system. The experience of these states during the period 2000 - 2012 can shed light on the impact of market-oriented reforms and the role of public procurement. Using individual-level National Sample Survey Data on agricultural wages and a new dataset on state-level average real farm income per cultivator for 18 major Indian states between 1987 - 2012, this paper shows, using both a difference-in-difference and a triple difference framework, that marketing reforms alone did not contribute to higher farm incomes and agricultural wages. However, when these reforms were coupled with public procurement at the minimum support price, farm incomes and agricultural wages significantly improved. The effects of public procurement were driven primarily by rice procurement. Our results suggest that market-reforms and public procurement at minimum support prices were complements which together contributed to raising rural incomes in states like Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh.

Download or read book The Role of Government in Agricultural Marketing Reform written by Raja Krishna and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Marketing in India written by S. S. Acharya and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Growth and Equity Effects of Agricultural Marketing Efficiency Gains in India written by Maurice R. Landes and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print-on-demand publication; it is not an original. Agriculture is the largest source of employment in India, and food accounts for about half of consumer expenditures. This analysis uses a computable general equilibrium model with agricultural commodity detail and households disaggregated by rural, urban, and income class to study the potential impacts of reforms that achieve efficiency gains in agricultural marketing and reduce agricultural input subsidies and import tariffs. More efficient agricultural marketing generates economywide gains in output and wages, raises agricultural producer prices, reduces consumer food prices, and increases private consumption, particularly by low-income households. Charts and tables.

Download or read book Revitalizing Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes written by Ashok Gulati and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book provides an evidence-based roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring that the growth process is efficient, inclusive, and sustainable, and results in sustained growth of farmers’ incomes. The book, instead of looking for global best practices and evaluating them to assess the possibility of replicating these domestically, looks inward at the best practices and experiences within Indian states, to answer questions such as -- how the agricultural growth process can be speeded up and made more inclusive, and financially viable; are there any best practices that can be studied and replicated to bring about faster growth in agriculture; does the prior hypothesis that rapid agricultural growth can alleviate poverty faster, reduce malnutrition, and augment farmers’ incomes stand? To answer these questions, the book follows four broad threads -- i) Linkage between agricultural performance, poverty and malnutrition; ii) Analysing the historical growth performance of agricultural sector in selected Indian states; iii) Will higher agricultural GDP necessarily result in higher incomes for farmers; iv) Analysing the current agricultural policy environment to evaluate its efficiency and efficacy, and consolidate all analysis to create a roadmap. These are discussed in 12 chapters, which provide a building block for the concluding chapter that presents a roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring growth in farmers’ incomes.

Download or read book The Dragon and the Elephant written by Ashok Gulati and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China and India are the most extraordinary economic success stories of the developing world. Both nations’ economies have grown dramatically over the past few decades, elevating them from two of the world’s poorest countries into projected economic superpowers. As a result, the numbers of Chinese and Indians living in poverty have rapidly fallen and per capita incomes in China and India have quadrupled and doubled, respectively. This book investigates the reasons for these staggering accomplishments and the lessons that can be applied both to other developing nations and to the problem of poverty that remains in these two countries. The contributors pay particular attention to agriculture and the rural economy, examining how initial conditions and investments and the prioritization and sequencing of different policies and strategies have led to successes, and how the agricultural and rural sectors connect to overall economic expansion. They also emphasize the importance of anti-poverty programs and safety nets in helping poor people escape poverty. The book offers a set of policy and strategic options for future growth and poverty reduction. These include setting the right priorities for public spending, identifying trade and market reforms, building social safety nets for the poorest of the poor, and building accountable institutions that can provide public goods and services effectively. The book concludes by examining future challenges to China and India’s economic development, such as the need to ensure growth that is sustainable, equitable, and environmentally friendly. The Dragon and the Elephant offers valuable insights to development specialists anxious to multiply the benefits experienced by two of the greatest economic successes in recent times.

Download or read book Indian Agricultural Marketing written by Jagdish Prasad and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Download or read book The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Reform in India written by Regina Birner and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2011 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural policy reform is one of the major challenges facing India today. Such reform is required to reduce poverty through faster agricultural growth and to promote more sustainable use of natural resources while ensuring food security. Subsidy policies that promote the use of fertilizer and of electricity for groundwater irrigation are in particular need of reform. While subsidies for these two inputs played a crucial role in achieving India's Green Revolution, they have been criticized during the past decade for benefitting large-scale farmers more than smallholders, placing a fiscal burden on the state, and having negative environmental effects. By analyzing the evolution of these input subsidy policies and examining the political processes involved in efforts to reform them, this study throws new light on the factors that have so far prevented a move toward more pro-poor and environmentally sustainable agricultural input policies in India. The authors show that electoral politics, institutional factors, and policy paradigms or belief systems all play an important role in blocking reform. They identify several policy reform options as well as political strategies that can overcome past obstacles to reform. Community-based policy solutions, new coalitions for policy reform, fresh approaches to the policy debate, innovative and consensus-oriented forms of deliberation, and effective use of research-based knowledge can all make positive contributions to Indian policy reform. The analyses and proposals presented in this study will be a valuable resource for policymakers and stakeholders concerned with the politics of agricultural development.

Download or read book Agricultural Value Chains in India written by Ashok Gulati and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities in India. It is based on the understanding that agriculture is an integrated system that connects farming with logistics, processing and marketing. Farmer’s welfare being central to any agricultural policy makes it very pertinent to study how a value chain works and can be strengthened further to realize this policy goal. This book adds value to the existing research by studying the value chains end-to-end across a wide spectrum of agricultural commodities with the holistic lens of CISS-F. It is not enough that a value chain is competitive but not inclusive or it is competitive and inclusive but not sustainable. The issue of scalability is very critical to achieve macro gains in terms of greater farmer outreach and sectoral growth. The research undertaken here brings out some very useful insights for policymaking in terms of what needs to be done better to steer the agricultural value chains towards being more competitive, inclusive, sustainable and scalable. The value chain specific research findings help draw very nuanced policy recommendations as well as present a big picture of the future direction of policy making in agriculture.

Download or read book The States Role in Agricultural Marketing written by Lisa Ann McLemore and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Indian Farmer Middlemen and the APMCs written by Aditya Singh and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of middlemen in the Indian agricultural marketing sector can be traced to the Agricultural Produce Marketing Corporation Acts passed by State Legislatures all over India. Agriculture is a state subject, hence drafting legislation on marketing is the prerogative of the State. With the objective of protecting the interests of the farmer, the APMC Acts passed by States in India share the common features of dividing the territory of the State into specially designated 'market areas' with each area having an Agricultural Marketing Committee appointed by the Government. Such a committee may set up one or more government-run markets in which trading of designated agricultural produce may take place. Now, how has the system of marketing of agricultural produce taken place in India in the past? Outlining the basics, contrary to western market practices, the Indian farmer is prohibited by law from selling is produce directly to an urban retailer. He can sell to the end-consumers but there is a restriction- he cannot sell more than 400 kilogrammes. If he has a produce above this figure, then he has to proceed to the Agricultural Markets run by the Government. Licensed brokers, commission agents and traders operate at these markets. Only such licensed operators are allowed to buy agricultural produce from the producer. Therefore if an urban retail chain would like to purchase several tonnes of tomatoes to sell throughout the city, then it will have to procure them from these 'licensed market operatives'. The law prohibits them from sourcing them from the farmer. Rule 5 of the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing Rules explicitly says that agricultural produce can only be marketed at the APMCs. The stated objective of Indian Policymakers was to prevent exploitation of the farmer. They envisioned that the farmer's produce would be sold at these designated markets at prices which were publicly displayed and monitored by the government. This way whatever price the farmer sold his produce at could be monitored and ascertained for its reasonableness by the State Agricultural Market Committee. With buying limited to the license holders, their activities could be scrutinised to check whether they were paying the government approved prices to the farmer and not exploiting him. Unfortunately India faces the agony of having laws rich in nobility but lacking in practicality and shoddy in enforcement. There is no exception for the APMC Acts also. Originally intended to create a system wherein a group of carefully monitored functionaries would be allowed to purchase agricultural produce, the act backfired in action, ultimately creating a coterie of middlemen, who along with the complicity of the market committees, formed a virtual barrier between the farmer and the consumer, paying the former a pittance for his produce and charging the latter obscenely exhorbitant amounts for daily necessities. Thus, the provisions of the APMC Acts confer a virtual monopoly on market functionaries or 'middlemen'. Farmers near the city can easily go into town to sell produce. But for those who live many miles away from production centers and are to poor to afford bulk transport, their only choice remains the APMC markets. There it is quite possible for middlemen to collude with one-another and dictate prices. They can afford transport facilities to ferry produce in large quantities. This produce passes on further to wholesalers in the city, who in turn sell it to small retailers or peddlers. There is a price rise of rupees 4 to 5 at every step. The end result is that vegetables, many of which are purchased at Rs. 2 or 3 a kg from farmers is sold at 20 to 30 rupees a kilo to urban consumers. This setup has been going on for not less than 25 to 30 years (since the passing of the APMC legislation). It has affected every major town and city in India. Thus, millions of urban Indians have had to pay artificially higher prices and millions of farmers went underpaid. The profit made by middlemen rarely figures in banks. Their record of paying taxes is dismal. It is common practice for the business community to store money in cash and not in banks. Therefore, we are looking at diversion of large amounts of capital into unproductive use. Also, price rises do not benefit farmers. It is suspected that groups of middlemen are behind the rise by hoarding produce. Rampant corruption ensures that their activities go unchecked. Had open marketing been allowed, millions of farmers would have got at least 4 or 5 rupees more for their produce and would have enjoyed a much better financial status today. Even the role of the government in mitigating this is dismal. Reading the website of the Press Information Bureau of the Government of India, there was a press release regarding policy steps to reduce prices. Not a single step mentioned therein dealt with the role played by middlemen in inflating prices or even measures to check them. This could be possible because their finances make them very powerful in local politics. Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh used to call 'Baniya Sammelans' to appease her voters in the business class. Since it is believed that many middlemen hail from that community, it would be appropriate to examine the political influence of that class. Remedial measures are now being taken. Many states have amended their APMC legislation to permit contract farming and direct purchase of agricultural produce by urban retailer. Thus, the market functionaries at APMC markets will face competition. Direct purchase by organised retailers reduces the length of the supply chain, giving better prices to farmers and charging lower prices from consumers. In a field survey conducted by the researcher in Pune, 'More', the retail arm of the Aditya Birla Group was selling capsicum at Rs. 26 a kg. At the same time, upon inquiring, it was found that peddlers at the 'subzi mandi' nearby were selling the same at Rs. 30 a kg! Also, contract farming by corporates will help better growing methods reach farmers, as such agreements contain clauses which provide that the corporate will provide technology to the grower to improve his yield. This benefits both, the farmer through increased yield and the corporate, who can source the same quantity from lesser suppliers.

Download or read book Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India written by Prabhu Pingali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity along with micro-nutrient deficiency portend to a future public health crisis. This book explores various challenges and opportunities to achieve a nutrition-secure future through diversified production systems, improved health and hygiene environment and greater individual capability to access a balanced diet contributing to an increase in overall productivity. The authors bring together the latest data and scientific evidence from the country to map out the current state of food systems and nutrition outcomes. They place India within the context of other developing country experiences and highlight India’s status as an outlier in terms of the persistence of high levels of stunting while following global trends in obesity. This book discusses the policy and institutional interventions needed for promoting a nutrition-sensitive food system and the multi-sectoral strategies needed for simultaneously addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in India.

Download or read book The Role of Government in Agricultural Marketing written by David H. Pickard and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Market Integration in India written by Michal Andrle and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We assess the degree of cross-market price discrepancy (a proxy for market integration), its evolution over time, and proximate determinants, using monthly price data for 21 agricultural goods and 60 markets in India. Econometric analysis shows that cross-market price integration is positively associated with the level of transportation infrastructure, and distance between market pairs. There is no robust evidence that price integration has increased in recent years, suggesting that any positive effects of recent policy initiatives are either small, outweighed by the identified determinants of integration, or yet to come.