Crop Loan is a financial term, available to the farmers in the form of short-term credit for financing crop production programmes. It is one of the essential requirements for the growth of agricultural production & productivity. In India, more than 50 per cent population lives in rural areas and approximately 60 per cent population depends on agriculture. But still agriculture confronts multiple risk and uncertainty due to lack of scattered land holdings, traditional mode of production, low use of modern inputs and technologies and lack of market incentives. This lead ultimately low yield and...

The present investigation is an attempt to study the economic aspects of production and marketing pattern of Basmati Rice in Jammu district of J & K state with objectives to work out the costs and returns of basmati rice production on different categories of farms, to evaluate the production efficiency on different sized farms of basmati crop, to study the existing marketing structure of basmati producers, to estimate the marketing efficiency in marketing of basmati rice and to examine the major constraints in the production and marketing of basmati rice. Two blocks were selected from Jammu...

In recent years, floriculture is becoming increasingly popular as a commercial enterprise on account of considerable potential for export. Tuberose can be grown on a wide range of soil and climatic conditions even in saline and alkaline conditions. The size of bulb plays an important role on growth and flowering of tuberose. The optimum plant density plays a major role in deciding vegetative growth, flower yield and multiplication of bulbs/bulblets. Normally, crop is retained for 2-3 years in the field, but higher flower yield is obtained in first ratoon crop. Tuberose is generally planted in...