Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are considered important delivery channels for providing group loans under various poverty alleviation programmes by the government and for spreading various awareness programmes by the non-governmental bodies such as NGOs. In India, the National Bank for Agriculture …

The agricultural sector in Punjab has witnessed substantial transformation under the impact of the Green Revolution since mid-1960s. However, the cropping pattern in Punjab has not witnessed any drastic change and has remained highly favourable towards wheat-paddy monoculture, which has …

Konaseema, comprising of sixteen fertile mandals, is often called the rice bowl of Andhra Pradesh - but it may have to change this moniker soon since 40,000 farmers in thirteen out of the sixteen mandals did not cultivate their land …

The agricultural sector has undergone a perceptible change since the 1990s, and an apparent shortage of labour is observed in rural farms in India as well as in Gujarat. This study aims to examine the district wise temporal changes in …

For improving the standard of living among the people of the country, the Government has implemented various schemes and programmes for securing the people economically, socially, culturally, educationally, and so on. However, the effects of the programmes have been found …