The study has looked into the institutional credit in relation with agricultural productivity in Jammu & Kashmir. The results have revealed that although the credit deployment of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) to agriculture has increased in absolute terms, its percentage share in the total credit outstanding has declined sharply. The intensity of agricultural credit has also declined over t...

this study compared and analyzed indigenous and modern agricultural technologies used in cassava production in anambra state. multi-stage sampling technique was used in sample selection. a total of 160 farmers were purposively selected from the four agricultural zones that made up the state based on the use of modern and indigenous technologies. data were collected using structured questionnair...

since the difference in productivity growth rates in different provinces is a result of regional inequality, efficiency criteria in the development of regional-scale agricultural activities is beneficial. therefore it is important that long-term movements in the provinces to identify differences in productivity levels to take effective measures such as investment more in infrastructure, researc...

India, which is one of the largest agricultural-based economies, remained closed until the early 1990s. By 1991, there was growing awareness that the inward-looking import substitution and overvalued exchange rate policy coupled with various domestic policies pursued during the past four decades, limited entrepreneurial decision making in many areas and resulted in a high cost domestic industri...

Agricultural intensification is placing tremendous pressure on the soil's capacity to maintain its functions leading to large-scale ecosystem degradation and loss of productivity in the long term. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find early indicators of soil health degradation in response to agricultural management. In recent years, major advances in soil meta-genomic and spatial studies ...

In order to improve the rural labor productivity and farmers’ income, land use transfer was launched and encouraged in recent years, especially the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan (2016–2020). This study aims to shed light on the impact of land use rights transfer on household labor productivity, based on a case study of Chongqing in China. Studies have revealed that land use transfer entails a proce...

According to the Ahlowalia hypothesis (1995), the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) beside infrastructure investments of government lead to income inequality decrease in rural areas of countries. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of public investments such as agricultural R&E, road, education and irrigation on income inequality in rural areas of Iran. In ord...