Food security is interlinked with agricultural production. Enhancement in farm productivity and providing diversified demand of food due to growth in per capita income, urbanization and changes in food habit is the major challenges. Study is based on secondary data collected from different...

Indian economy is the fastest growing economy of the world surpassing China during financial year 2015 and 2018. GDP of the country was recorded 7.1% in 2016 and it declined to 6.7% in 2017. Agriculture sector is underperforming for combating malnutrition of a large proportion of the population....

The study examines the influence of the respondents’ socio-economic characteristics on their adoption of crop insurance schemes. Discriminant analysis based on the criteria values of standardized canonical coefficient, correlation matrix identified that educational level, farm size,...

The eastern region of India, comprising the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Odisha and West Bengal, is one of the most backward regions of the nation. This region occupies about 21.85% of geographical area and supports 34% of the population of the country. Agriculture is the mainstay of...

Land is vital natural resource for any developmental activity. Bihar shares about 8.63% of the total population in the country while the share in total land area of India is only 2.86%. Bihar has been divided into three agro-climatic zones such as Zone-I, Zone-II and Zone-III. The study reveals...

The nature and extent of crop diversification in the state of Bihar has been analyzed using secondary data obtained from different publish sources of Govt. of Bihar from 2000-01 to 2014-15 i.e. a period of 15 years. Composite Entropy Index (CEI) and double log step-wise linear regression model...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been widely used in measuring agricultural production efficiency. The present paper is to investigate the technical, allocative and cost or economic efficiencies of rice farms in Bihar. The farm level data used in the analysis was taken from cost of...

Objectives: To find out the growth, as well as instability in area, production and productivity of sugarcane farming and to assess the resource use efficiency in major sugarcane growing states of India and trade performance of sugar.Methods/Statistical analysis: Investigation is based on...

The multi-dimensional role of women in agriculture cannot be denied as they contribute in every agricultural operation from sowing to harvesting of crops and are also active in allied sectors. Participation of women in total workforce was assessed 27.44 per cent as against 72.56 per cent by male...

The present investigation has been carried out to analyze the agricultural output growth and contribution of different components to the output growth in the state of Bihar. Results of the analysis depicted mixed trend in growth rates of area under different crops in the state. The production...