Agriculture is an economic activity that manifests the complex relationship between natural and human resources. The growth of agriculture is prerequisite for overall development of Indian economy. It contributes significantly to the export earnings and affects the performance of other sectors of the economy through forward and backward linkages. The present paper analysis disparities in agricu...

The present study has been carried out in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh on economic analysis of menthol mint cultivation in the year 2010. The economics has been worked out by comparing costs and returns at different stages by the conventional method. The linear production function has been fitted to evaluate the resources-use efficiency in the production of menthol mint. The study ha...

Crop water requirements of Roma tomato that planted on different spacing for four treatment and its replications in Nyagatare district Kinihira village have been computed with CROPWAT 8.0 using the meteorological parameters. The requirement was evapotranspiration (ET0), effective rainfall, Net Irrigation demand, Gross demand irrigation interval crops grown computed. Based rainfall data, soil ch...

Dairy farmers in the Central Goulburn Irrigation District used information seeking behaviour to collect a range of information from a number of sources when they were considering adopting centre pivot irrigation (CPI). The information that was sought depended on where the farmers were in the decision making process. General information on CPI function, price, performance and site requirements w...

T he changing climate and concerns over food security are prompting a new look at the supply chain reliability of products derived from agriculture, and the potential role of contract farming as a mechanism to address climate and price risk while contributing toward crop diversification and water use efficiency is also emerging. In this study, the decision problem of a farmer associated with al...