DIGITAL INDIA REACHING TO SMALL, MARGINAL & WOMEN FARMERS

WOMEN AND SMALL BUSINESS (microenterprise) The Income-Generating Project for Marginal Farmers and Landless

positive. The features that characterize rural women’s work — labour intensity, local materials and local markets — also constrain product diversification and market expansion. Other constraints include lack of field-tested appropriate technology, interference by men in the use of capital reserves, lack of infrastructure and transportation, lack of managerial skills, direct and indirect competi...

A Simulation Framework to Study Policy Formulation and Evaluation of Economic Viability and Sustainability of Small and Marginal Farmers

27 * The authors are co-founders of Ecometrix Research. The authors can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected]. The present paper is an updated and revised version of an internal unpublished technical paper developed as part of the research activity at the organization. The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for helpful comments on an earlier draft. A...

Contribution of Women to the Persian Language in Medieval India

Patriarchy, it seems today, has always been an integral part of the Indian society. A slight glance at the status of women in India today makes one think that women have always been considered inferior to men. History, however, says otherwise; women in India have historically had a greater role to play and have commanded far greater respect than they do today. It will therefore be justified to ...

The political economy of farmers’ suicides in India: indebted cash-crop farmers with marginal landholdings explain state-level variation in suicide rates

BACKGROUND A recent Lancet article reported the first reliable estimates of suicide rates in India. National-level suicide rates are among the highest in the world, but suicide rates vary sharply between states and the causes of these differences are disputed. We test whether differences in the structure of agricultural production explain inter-state variation in suicides rates. This hypothesis...

Emergy Analysis for Small Farmers