This Book Is An Attempt To Analyse Certain Theoretical Aspects Evolved In Agricultural Credit System. Every Policy Formulated For The Development Of Agriculture In India Is Determined On The Characteristics Of Our Agricul¬Tural System. So, The Initial Part Of The Book Reviews The Charactristics Of Indian Agriculture. An Agricultural Credit System Which Is Passing Through Critical Stages Since The Later Half Of The 19Th Century, Is Still Facing Various Bottlenecks And Constraints. The Lullaby Credit Policies Will Not Solve The Problems. The Second Chapter Deals With A Critical Review Of Agri¬Cultural Farm System In India. The Third Chapter Is The Main Content Of The Book, Wherein Theoretical Aspects Of Farm Cred System Have Been Over-Viewed And Analysed. Co-Operative Movement Has Gained The Sympathy And Response From Ruralites. Besides The Movement Has A Vertical And Horizontal Linkage With Various Deve¬Lopment Activities. But The Movement Is Just Writhe Of The Co-Operative Leaders And Dose Not Stand As People'S Movement. However, Co-Operatives Will Succeed Provided They Are Re¬Organised. Co-Operative Village Banks (Cvbs) Are Suggested At Last With An Empirical Evidence.

`This is a "must read" for anyone interested in value chain finance.---Kenneth Shwedel, Agricultural Economist --Book Jacket.

This book provides a thorough introduction to and examination of agricultural value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, the authors introduce the economic theory of agri-food value chains and value chain governance, focusing on domestic and regional trade in (and consumption of) food crops in a low-income country context. In addition to mainstream and heterodox thinking about value chain development, the book pays attention to political economy considerations. The book also reviews the empirical evidence on value chain development and performance in Africa. It adopts multiple lenses to examine agricultural value chains, zooming out from the micro level (e.g., relational contracting in a context of market imperfections) to the meso level (e.g., distributional implications of various value chain interventions, inclusion of specific social groups) and the macro level (underlying income, population and urbanization trends, volumes and prices, etc.).Furthermore, this book places value chain development in the context of a process the authors refer to as structural transformation 2.0, which refers to a process where production factors (labor, land and capital) move from low-productivity agriculture to high-productivity agriculture. Finally, throughout the book the authors interpret the evidence in light of three important debates: (i) how competitive are rural factor and product markets, and what does this imply for distribution and innovation? (ii) what role do foreign investment and factor proportions play in the development of agri-food value chains in Africa? (iii) what complementary government policies can help facilitate a process of agricultural value chain transformation, towards high-productive activities and enhancing the capacity of value chains to generate employment opportunities and food security for a growing population.

This book presents the basic model of an agricultural household that underlies most of the case studies undertaken so far. The model assumes that households are price-takers and is therefore recursive. The decisions modeled include those affecting production and the demand for inputs and those affecting consumption and the supply of labor. Comparative results on selected elasticities are presented for a number of economies. The empirical significance of the approach is demonstrated in a comparison of models that treat production and consumption decisions separately and those in which the decisionmaking process is recursive. The book summarizes the implications of agricultural pricing policy for the welfare of farm households, marketed surplus, the demand for nonagricultural goods and services, the rural labor market, budget revenues, and foreign exchange earnings. In addition, it is shown that the basic model can be extended in order to explore the effects of government policy on crop composition, nutritional status, health, saving, and investment and to provide a more comprehensive analysis of the effects on budget revenues and foreign exchange earnings. Methodological topics, primarily the data requirements of the basic model and its extensions, along with aggregation, market interaction, uncertainty, and market imperfections are discussed. The most important methodological issues - the question of the recursive property of these models - is also discussed.

Nowadays, agricultural-food system has been experiencing major changes which are driven mainly by recent developments in consumer preferences and attitudes, technological improvements, food safety issues and related regulations. The advanced agro-food sec