Rao, P P and Birthal, P S and Joshi, P K (2006) Sustaining Growth in High-Value Food Commodities Role of Urbanization and Infrastructure. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
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In India, the demand for high-value food commodities (HVCs) such as fruit, vegetables, milk, meat, fish and eggs is fast increasing as compared to food grains. This is an opportunity as well a challenge for millions of smallholder farmers who are over 81% of the total farm population in India. High-value agriculture has a comparative advantage over staples in production and labor use, and thus is reckoned as an important strategy for income augmentation and employment generation (Barghouti et al. 2004; Joshi et al.............
| Item Type: | Monograph (Documentation) |
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| Series Name: | Policy Brief No. 9 |
| Subjects: | Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics |
| Depositing User: | Mr Charan Sai Ch |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2011 15:03 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2014 07:39 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3236 |
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