In what respects, India's food value chain is different from more established markets around the world? Discuss.

Food value chain refers to the network of producers, processing industries and sellers to get the food items to the consumers. Indian food value chain is contrary to the established markets around the world due to Predominance of subsistence farming ..

How the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 and Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill together make difference in the life of a common man? How they would affect public policy in financial matters? Critically discuss.

The new Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill-2017 seeks to create a frame work for resolving bankruptcy in financial firms such as banks and insurance companies and also aims to instill discipline in financial service providers in the event of ..

How can Methanol Economy be helpful for India? What are major roadblocks in to use Methanol as an alternative fuel? Discuss the current government policy towards promoting extensive use of Methanol in cooking gas and transportation fuel in India.

India is the third biggest oil importer in the world. Import bill of crude oil occupies a major share in the Government’s expenditure accounting to almost Rs.6 lakh crores. In order to bring down this, the government is trying to ..

"While Green Revolution has made India self-sufficient in food grains, it has also led to many unintended ecological and socioeconomic repercussions in the country". Do you agree? Discuss with the help of examples.

Green revolution has always been considered as one of the biggest achievement in the field of food production. It is referred as a situation wherein there is quantum jump in production of food grain with the use of high yielding ..

What are major reasons for declining rice and wheat yield in the cropping system? How crop diversification is helpful to stabilize the yield of crops in the system?

Different types of agricultural patterns are found in India. Especially, in the northern region of India, Rice and wheat pattern was dominant in nature. But in recent times due to various reasons, a declining trend of rice and wheat yield ..

What are the reasons for viability crisis in agriculture? Explain with special reference to Minimum Support Price Scheme.

There are several reasons that make Indian agriculture less viable including Small and fragmented land-holdings; quality seeds and low seed replacement ratio; fertilizers and irrigation policy; lack of mechanization; issues in marketing, inadequate storage facilties etc. However, MSP scheme is ..

What are the reasons for poor acceptance of cost-effective small processing unit? How the food processing unit will be helpful to upliftment of socio-economic status of poor farmers?

Food processing is the process of transformation of raw agricultural products into other forms of food. It includes different food processing methods like grinding grain to make raw flour, potato chips from potatoes, etc. Previous Initiatives Food infrastructure like packing ..

How do subsidies affect the cropping pattern, crop diversity and economy of farmers? What is the significance of crop insurance, minimum support price and food processing for small and marginal farmers?

An agricultural subsidy is an incentive paid by the government to the agricultural organizations as a supplement of their income to maintain the supply of the agricultural commodities. In India, the subsidy covers fertilizer, irrigation, equipment, credit subsidy, seed subsidy, ..

What is Academic inflation?

Academic inflation is defined as a mixed situation wherein on one hand, having a degree becomes a mandatory requirement for more jobs while, at the same time, becomes an insufficient entry requirement for other set of people. Considering the present ..

What is Gini coefficient? Discuss the factors that led to rise in Gini coefficient in country over last few decades.

According to a recent paper written by well-known economists Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty, India’s income inequality has been at its highest level since the time when Indian Income Tax Act was introduced in 1922. In the recent time, there ..