Revitalizing Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes

Analyzing Indian farmer suicide rates.

Arguments about the causes of Indian farmer suicides have been widely aired in recent years, both in the media and in academic papers. It is plausible to suppose, as Carleton (1) does, that climate change has an indirect causal effect on the farmer suicide rate via reduced crop yields and increasing debt. It is, however, much less plausible to suppose that there will be a causal link for nonfar...

Integrated Pest Management Farmer Field School for Sustainable Agriculture

The study was conducted among the two farmer groups in Bhaktapur and Kavre districts of Nepal. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of IPM FFS on creating awareness and disseminating the knowledge on sustainable pest management to the farmers and to assess the relationships between enhanced IPM knowledge and adoption of IPM strategies by the farmers. The study has be...

An Aspect of Indian Agriculture

Observation I : When family labour employed in agriculture is given an "imputed value" in terms of the ruling wage ratet much of Indian agriculture seems unremunerative. In fact in Bombay for the two districts studied, taken together, "we get a loss in crop product ion to the tune of Rs 5.50 per acre ' ' (Bombay Studies. 1954-55, p 6 5 ) . This was made up of a Joss in Ahmednagar and a profit i...

A New Brand of Agriculture? Farmer-Owned Brands Reward Innovation

Farmer Response towards the Initial Agriculture Information Dissemination Mobile Prototype

Agriculture information is the source of energy from which farmer will gain power in decision making. Finding the right approach to providing information to empower farmers is vital due to the high failure rate in current agricultural information systems. As most farmers now have mobile phones we developed a mobile based information system. We used participatory action research methodology to e...