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Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana: Enhancing Impact through Demand Driven Innovations
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, has launched the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana
(PMKSY) to address India’s key agricultural challenges in the 21st century i.e., to reduce poverty ...
BHOOCHETANA: Innovative Institutional Partnerships to Boost Productivity of Rainfed Agriculture in Karnataka, India
Although there has been a considerable development in publicprivate
partnership in developing countries, there are very few examples
of multiinstitutional
partnership for transferring agricultural technologies to smallholders. ...
Economic implications of groundwater exploitation in hard rock areas of southern peninsular India
The present paper analyses the consequences of groundwater exploitation by
using field-level data collected from two distinct well irrigated areas of Karnataka. The
study results show that the consequences arising out of ...
Harnessing the potential of family farming in India and China
Ninety per cent of the world’s farmers are in developing countries and 85 per cent of farms worldwide are less than 2 hectares.
Presently, family farming feeds up to 80 per cent of the population in Asia and subSaharan
Africa, ...
Transforming Weather Index-Based Crop Insurance in India: Protecting Small Farmers from Distress Status and a Way Forward
In India, agriculture contributes 14% of the GDP and employs 54% of the workforce (NCAER 2013). It accounts for 8.56% of the
country’s exports. Despite agriculture’s steady decline in share in the GDP, it remains the largest ...