Migration has been a recurrent phenomenon since the dawn of human history. Though its form has changed but it remains a dominant event in the global social system. In modern days also people migrate from underdeveloped areas to the developed ones in search of better opportunities. A number of social, cultural, economic, spatial, climatic, demographic factors induce migration, however, the econo...

On the 26 of June 2003, an agreement was reached by agricultural ministers to reform the Common Agricultural Policy. Decoupling direct payments from farm output and reductions of administrative prices are core elements of this reform. Major reform goals are less output of cereals, beef, sugar and milk, stabilised farm incomes and a more competitive farm sector. Model simulations show that these...

Selection of the best compromise irrigation plan is examined in the multi objective context. The study deals with three con ̄icting objectives: net bene®ts, agricultural production and labour employment. Three-stage procedure is adopted combining multi objective optimisation, cluster analysis and multicriterion decision-making (MCDM) methods. Two MCDM methods, namely, PROMETHEE-2 and a newly dev...

High-technology is an umbrella term for that branch of advanced technology which utilizes electronics. At ITC we are particularly concerned with developing countries, and this is realised through our education, consultancy, and research programmes directed towards the resource problems of such countries. For whatever reason, these countries have chosen to move away from traditional practices; t...

Labour market imperfections are one of the leading causes of economic backwardness that result in under utilization of labour, the most important input in production process. Labour markets are shallow in subsistence agricultural economies which causes problem in determining the wage rate. The household production function provides an alternative to estimating the shadow wage rate such that it ...

Migration of population has been a recurrent phenomenon since the dawn of human history. Though its form has changed but it remains a dominant event in the global social system. In modern days also people migrate from underdeveloped areas to the developed ones in search of better opportunities. Several theories have been propounded to explain the occurrence of migration. A number of social, cul...

The output supply and input demand are closely interlinked to each other. Therefore, any change in input and output prices affect the input demand and output supply simultaneously. The present study used cross sectional cum time series data of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state for cotton crop for the ten years from 1999-00 to 2008-09 were collected from the Agricultural Prices and costs Sche...

Throughout this paper, the theoretical concepts from above areas were combined with analysis and interpretation of statistical data same interest, resulting in a detailed how agricultural labour force influences yields five most important crops Romanian sector, namely, wheat, maize, sunflower, rapeseed soybean. The was carried out within eight NUTS-listed development regions. A bibliometric imp...

The realization of sustainable development depends on the efficient use of energy resources. Energy consumption productivity and efficiency are among important indices that play a critical role in explaining the behavior of energy consumption structure of different economic sectors, which in turn, plays a key role in policy making. From among economic sectors, the agriculture sector, as an impo...