four segments identified for Vanraj tractors: small and marginal farmers‚ large farmers‚ industries‚ and horticulture farmers. Vanraj was economical and could perform almost all the functions of a big tractor at lower costs serving multiple purposes and uses. It provided added and immense advantage over the existing Chinese made mini-tractors and bullocks used by small farmers and the existing market players catered to the larger farmer segment considered lucrative and substantive in nature with a
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distance strained industrial suppliers’ reach‚ where consumers had strong preference for local variety‚ farmers’ markets remained competitive with other forms of food retail. Recently‚ consumer demand for foods that are fresher (spend less time in transit) and foods with more variety—has led to growth of farmers’ markets as preferred food-retailing mechanisms. Farmers’ markets can offer farmers increased profit over selling to wholesalers‚ food processors‚ or large grocery firms. This‚ due to the
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history book "Give me Liberty" by Eric Foner‚ I was fascinated by the farmers Revolt which took place around the late 1800’s and dealt with the growing debt‚ poverty and financial challenges of the farmers in the West and in the South. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that my fathers family had cotton farms in Paducah‚ Texas and were so poor but rich in land. I felt compelled to learn more and understand about the Farmers Alliance aka Populist Party. I used to think the banks were supportive
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Nainital district of Uttarakhand covering one block and six villages. The study aimed to measure the level of technology adoption of vegetable hybrids by the farmers in the study area. The results obtained revealed that the area under study was characterized by preponderances of low adoption of technology as about 47 per cent of farmers were low adopters. The average holding size of low adopters group was 0.85 hectare and for medium and high adopter group was 0.64 hectare and 1.15 hectare‚ respectively
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Coromandel International (CIL) has taken the following initiative in the recent past specifically for the benefit of rural population particularly village farmers. The company has established “Mana Gromor” retail outlets in rural sectors which provide agri inputs to the farmers. Additionally the company also provides advisory services to the farmers through their in-house experts present in these retail stores. This includes right usage of pesticides‚ best cropping
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AGRICULTURE OF BANGLADESH Agriculture is an important sector of the economy of Bangladesh and one of the main drivers of economic growth. In order to ensure food security‚ the present government is committed to achieve self sufficiency in food by 2013 through increased production. The contribution of this sector to GDP stood at 20.49 percent in FY 2008-09. According to the revised estimate of BBS‚ the overall contribution of the broad agriculture sector at constant price is 20.24 percent
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Adoption of CA technologies has been defined in several ways depending on the nature of the technology in question. In this study‚ adoption refers to the decision by a farmer to use a particular CA technology component‚ a definition similar to that used by Feder et al.‚ 1985. The extent of adoption is measured as the proportion of area the farmer commits to a particular technology. Other Research studies states that the decision to adopt a new or improved technology/practice can be regarded as an investment
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Americans who lost their homes‚ life savings and jobs. This paper briefly states the causes of the depression and summarizes the vast problems Americans faced during the eleven years of its span. This paper primarily focuses on what life was like for farmers during the time of the Depression‚ as portrayed in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath‚ and tells what the government did to end the Depression. In the 1920’s‚ after World War 1‚ danger signals were apparent that a great Depression was coming.
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similarities; for example‚ the plot of both movies entails farmers hiring mercenaries to help fend off bandits that annually pillage their farms. The two movies also have differences like the characterization of the bandits in The Magnificent Seven as opposed to The Seven Samurai. One of the main similarities between the Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven is the plot. In both movies bandits annually pillage a small village and the farmers are left with barely enough food to survive. In the Magnificent
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increased empowerment of rural farmers where e-choupals have been established. The e-choupal initiative directly links the rural farmers with the company for the procurement of agriculture and aquaculture products‚ such as soybeans‚ coffee‚ and prawns. Traditionally‚ these commodities were procured by such companies as ITC from mandis (major agricultural marketing centers in rural areas of India)‚ and a long chain of intermediaries was involved in buying the produce from farmers and moving it to the mandis
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