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The present publication features articles written by various authors who hail from different regions of India, including the North Eastern Hill Region. The book is structured in such a way as to encompass all aspects of hill agriculture, with a focus on the economics of different enterprises, as well as marketing and sustainability. The main topics covered in the book are as follows: 1) Performance of Hill Agriculture in India, 2) Public and Private Support for hill Agriculture, 3) Organic farming in Hills: Status, Scope and Economics, 4) Horticulture in Hills: Status, Scope and Economics, 5) Agricultural Marketing in hills: Status, Marketed Surplus, Producers' share, Interventions, etc., 6) Status of Land Reforms and Agricultural holdings, 7) Agricultural Credit and Insurance, 8) Using ICT in Hill Agriculture, 9) Facing the Challenges of WTO in Hill Agriculture, and 10) Sustainability Issues in Hill Agriculture.
Contents
Theme 1. Performance of Hill Agriculture in India.
01. Agricultural Mechanization in Hills. Scope and Constraints Sanjay Khar, Rakesh Sharma and Punit Choudhary
02. Dairy Enterprise for Sustainable Livelihood in North East Hilly Region Rishikanta Singh 03. Economics and Profitability of Fodder Crops in Hills Vikas Kumar and Sudhakar Dwivedi
04. Socio-Economic Features of Nomadic Gujjars. Livestock Grazers of Jammu (J&K) Tarunvir Singh and Sudhakar Dwivedi
05. Adopting Sericulture for Sustainable Hill AgricultureAmardev Singh
06. Sheep Farming in Hills. A Subsidiary Enterprise for Income Generation Suraj Parkash, Arvind Ishar and Sanjeev Kumar
07. Underutilized Crops of Himalayan Region Arun Gupta, Lakshmi Kant, P. K. Agrawal and V. Mahajan
08. Alleviating Drudgery of Indian Farm Women through Technology Interventions in Animal Husbandry Puja Mathur and Pawan Kumar Sharma
Theme 2 . Public/Private Support for Hill Agriculture.
09. Influence of Scientific Orientation on Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Pineapple Growers in Nagaland K. K. Jha
Theme 3. Organic Farming in Hills. Status, Scope and Economics.
10. Organic Farming in Hills. Opportunities and Constraints A K Tripathi, A Roy, N U Singh and S Seeralan
11. Organic Farming in Hills. An Economic Analysis of Vermi-Composting Manoj Gupta, S. S.Paliyal and Pankaj Mittal
12. Vermiculture Technology. Boon for Hill Agriculture Sunil Kumar and Sanjay Sachan
Theme 4 . Horticulture in Hills. Status, Scope and Economics.
13. Trends of Major Fruit Crops in Himachal Pradesh Amod Sharma and Sudhakar Dwivedi
14. Economic Importance of Vegetables. Exclusive to Hills Neerja Sharma, A.K. Gupta, R.K. Sanmotra, R.K. Arora and Raju Gupta
15. King Chilli Current Scenario and Future Prospects in North Eastern India S. Mahanta and K.H. Begum
16. Seabuckthorn. An Attractive Prospect for Hill Regions Rajander S Bali, V K Sah, Abhishek Bahuguna and Birendra Prasad
17. Economics of Insect Pest and Disease Management in Chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) Sandhya Bahuguna, Birendra Prasad and Abhishek Bahuguna
18. Greenhouse Technologies for Hill Agriculture Neerja Sharma, A. K. Gupta, R. K. Sanmotra, and R. K. Arora
Theme 5. Agricultural Marketing in Hills. Status, Marketed Surplus, Producer share, Interventions etc.
19. Agricultural Marketing in Hills. Problems and Opportunities Pawan Kumar Sharma, Sudhakar Dwivedi and Sudhir Jamwal
Theme 6. Status of Land Reforms and Agricultural Holdings.
20. Land Reforms and Agriculture Development for Poverty Elimination Harnam Singh, Anil Bhat and S.P. Singh
Theme 7. Agricultural Credit and Insurance.
21. Role of Financial Agencies in Livestock Farming B.K. Mishra, C.S. Choubey and Sunil Kumar
22. Mitigating Agriculture Risks through Crop Insurance Anil Bhat, Jyoti Kachroo and Sudhakar Dwivedi
Theme 8. Using ICT in Hill Agriculture. 23. Information Technology for Efficient Agricultural Marketing in Hills K Srinivas, Mukesh Kumar and SRK Singh
24. Accessibility of ICT in Uttarakhand Hills and Its Impact Kiran Yadav, Sunil Kumar and Chandra Dev
Theme 9. Facing the Challenges of WTO in Hill Agriculture.
25. WTO in Agriculture. New Dimensions Sudhakar Dwivedi and Shobhana Gupta
Theme 10. Sustainability Issues in Hill Agriculture.
26. New Dimensions of Agricultural Extension for Hill Agriculture Parveen Kumar, M. S. Nain
27. Economic Disposal of Livestock Waste B.K. Mishra, Santosh Singh, Sunil Kumar and C.S. Choubey
28. Sustainable Agriculture. Current Demand for Feeding the Increasing Population SK Kaushik, Shobhana Gupta and KV Singh
29. Grain Amaranth. An Economic Key to Sustainable Hill Agriculture Birendra Prasad, Abhishek Bahuguna, Sunil Kumar and Rajander S Bali
30. Plant-Biodiversity. Its Implications for Sustainable Hill Agriculture Awnindra K. Singh, Permendra Singh and M.C. Dwivedi
31. Seed Quality as Influenced by Packaging Container during Storage Birendra Prasad and Abhishek Bahuguna
32. Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Degradation- A Case Study of Hill Districts of Assam Hiranya Kumar Baruah
