What do you mean by agricultural marketing?
Agricultural marketing refers to all those processes that are involved from harvesting to final sales of the products by the farmers.
These processes involve:
a) gathering the product after harvesting
b) processing the product
c) grading the product, according to, different quality norms
d) packaging the product
e) storing the product for future use
f) selling the product at attractive prices
In other words, it does not simply refer to the farmers' act of bringing their product to the market for the purpose of sale. But it also includes all those activities that help the farmers to fetch the maximum price for his product.
Explain the steps taken by the government in developing rural markets.
Distinguish between ‘Green Revolution’ and ‘Golden Revolution’.
Why is agricultural diversification essential for sustainable livelihoods?
Discuss the importance of credit in rural development.
Bring out the importance of animal husbandry, fisheries and horticulture as a source of diversification.
Explain the role of micro-credit in meeting credit requirements of the poor.
Critically evaluate the role of the rural banking system in the process of rural development in India.
What do you mean by rural development? Bring out the key issues in rural development.
What is organic farming and how does it promote sustainable development?
Explain the role of non-farm employment in promoting rural diversification.
What was the focus of the economic policies pursued by the colonial government in India? What were the impacts of these policies?
What are the two major sources of human capital in a country?
Define a plan?
Who is a worker?
Explain the term ‘infrastructure’.
What is meant by environment?
Why are regional and economic groupings formed?
Why were reforms introduced in India?
Why calorie-based norm is not adequate to identify the poor?
Name some notable economists who estimated India’s per capita income during the colonial period?
What was the two-fold motive behind the systematic de-industrialisation affected by the British in pre-independent India?
Discuss economic reforms in India in the light of social justice and welfare.
The newly emerging jobs are found mostly in the sector (service/manufacturing).
India has abundant natural resources —substantiate the statement.
Analyse the recent trends in sectoral distribution of workforce in India.
The following table shows the population and worker population ratio for India in 1999-2000. Can you estimate the workforce (urban and total) for India?
Region | Estimates of Population (in crores) |
Worker Population Ratio |
Estimated No. of Workers (in crores) |
Rural Uraban Total |
71.88 28.52 100.40 |
41.9 33.7 39.5 |
71.88/100 x 41.9 = 30.12 ? ? |
Bring out the need for on-the-job-training for a person.
Underscore some of India’s most crucial economic challenges at the time of independence.
Do you think that in the last 50 years, employment generated in the country is commensurate with the growth of GDP in India? How?
Explain the relevance of intergenerational equity in the definition of sustainable development.