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Sustaining Growth in High-Value Food Commodities Role of Urbanization and Infrastructure

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Title Sustaining Growth in High-Value Food Commodities Role of Urbanization and Infrastructure
 
Creator Rao, P P
Birthal, P S
Joshi, P K
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description 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.............
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2006
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3236/1/Policybrief9.pdf
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.