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Author: George Mergos Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 170
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Dairy development is an important component of strategies to expand agricultural output in many developing countries. Specifically, the paper reports the results of a study undertaken in 1983 in the state of Madhya Pradesh concerning dairy development and milk cooperatives. Using a variety of econometric techniques the analysis of this paper establishes, in the area of study, that the project improved the milk marketing system thereby increasing competition with the result that the average price of milk to producers rose about 8 percent. This together with improvements in the provision of animal husbandry and veterinary services and an induced increase in the use of variable inputs raised milk production by about 17 percent over five years. Further analysis shows that the resulting increase in incomes for milk producers led to increased food consumption. Finally, the study suggests that future cooperative and dairy policy in areas such as that studied will benefit in the short-run from further intensification of animal husbandry and veterinary services to farmers to allow them to maximize output from their holdings of traditional cows.
Author: George Mergos Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 170
Book Description
Dairy development is an important component of strategies to expand agricultural output in many developing countries. Specifically, the paper reports the results of a study undertaken in 1983 in the state of Madhya Pradesh concerning dairy development and milk cooperatives. Using a variety of econometric techniques the analysis of this paper establishes, in the area of study, that the project improved the milk marketing system thereby increasing competition with the result that the average price of milk to producers rose about 8 percent. This together with improvements in the provision of animal husbandry and veterinary services and an induced increase in the use of variable inputs raised milk production by about 17 percent over five years. Further analysis shows that the resulting increase in incomes for milk producers led to increased food consumption. Finally, the study suggests that future cooperative and dairy policy in areas such as that studied will benefit in the short-run from further intensification of animal husbandry and veterinary services to farmers to allow them to maximize output from their holdings of traditional cows.
Author: Pratyusha Basu Publisher: Cambria Press ISBN: 160497625X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 288
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India's cooperative dairying program is widely celebrated as an example of successful rural development, yet the meanings of this success have been understood mainly through the pronouncements of national and international development agencies. Within such official narratives, there has been relatively little engagement with the geographies of dairy development, both its place-specific productions through political contests, availabilities of labor, and distributions of agricultural resources, and the unevenness of its outcomes across rural India. This absence is even more surprising given that village-level cooperatives comprise the foundation of India's dairy development program, and the work of women within rural households is continuously invoked as an integral part of the dairy work. This book extends and enriches current understandings of cooperative dairying in India to show both its value to rural communities as well as the limitations of its participatory structures. Combining comparative and ethnographic approaches, explanations for the diverse outcomes of cooperative dairying are provided from the perspective of the people and places directly involved in the everyday reproductions of rural development. This book contributes to existing understandings of rural development and rural geographies in four significant ways. First, by following histories of development from their local origins to their national and international appearances, the global genealogies that are usually attached to development are rendered more complex. Second, by connecting cooperatives to place, the ways in which participation in development reflects local struggles for power and, hence, are structured through local inequalities, is revealed. Third, by linking dairying and agriculture, the continuing importance of resource distributions in shaping the outcomes of rural development is highlighted. Finally, the crucial role of household divisions of labor in the success of village dairy cooperatives is explicated through showing how struggles over the meanings of rural women's work become key to enabling household-level participation in dairying. This book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, including geography, sociology, anthropology, rural studies, development studies, gender studies, and regional studies of India.
Author: Harold Alderman Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN: 0896290662 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 64
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Trabalho sobre projeto de desenvolvimento de cooperativas de produtores de leite em Karnataka, India, abordando o contexto do estudo, a producao de leite, marketing, medidas diretas de efeito sobre o consumo, mudancas nos custos e distribuicao de renda. Aborda tambem as implicacoes politicas.
Author: R C Mascarenhas Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 300
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The obvious success of Operation Flood and the National Dairy Development Board established by the Government of India, has prompted Mascarenhas to undertake this study. In it, he adopts an interdisciplinary approach to evaluate Operation Flood as a strategy in rural development. He evalutes various rural development programmes attempted in India and other developing countries.
Author: Kenda Cunningham Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 48
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Between 1970 and 2009, India has overcome many infrastructural, market, and institutional challenges to transition from a dairy importing nation to the top producer in the world of both buffalo and goat milk, as well as the sixth largest producer of cow milk. In India, at least 100 million households are involved in farming and 70 million have dairy cattle. In India, dairy production is important for employment, income levels, and the nutritional quality of diets. Milk production in India is dominated by smallholder farmers including landless agricultural workers. For example, 80 percent of milk comes from farms with only two to five cows. A well-known smallholder dairy production initiative, Operation Flood, laid the foundation for a dairy cooperative movement that presently ensures returns on dairy investments to 13 million members. Operation Flood also advanced infrastructural improvements to enable the procurement, processing, marketing, and production of milk and to link India's major metropolitan cities with dairy cooperatives nationwide. This intervention transformed the policy environment, brought significant technological advancements into the rural milk sector, established many village cooperatives, and oriented the dairy industry toward markets.
Author: Wilfred Candler Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 9780821342893 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 102
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Portuguese edition (Melhor Saude em Africa: Experiencia e Ensinamentos Colhidos). Poor health in Sub-Saharan Africa has immense economic consequences. Besides the high mortality and disease rates and the pain and suffering it causes, poor health robs the continent of human capital, reduces returns to learning, impedes entrepreneurial activities, and restricts economic growth. This study argues that despite financial constraints, significant improvements are possible in many countries, as has been seen in Benin, Botswana, Kenya, Mauritius, and Zimbabwe. The book also presents positive ideas on how to make these improvements. Better Health in Africa documents lessons learned and best practices in four major areas. 1) African households and communities need the knowledge and resources to recognize and respond effectively to health problems. Threats to health should be made known and countered through public and private services. 2) Human and financial resources must be used more productively by reforming health care systems. Correcting sources of waste and inefficiency must take top priority. 3) Cost-effective packages of basic health services can do much to meet the needs of households and reduce the burden of disease. Networks of local health centers and small hospitals in rural and periurban areas can facilitate delivery. 4) Additonal funds totaling $1.6 billion a year can help those living in Africa's low-income areas obtain basic health services. Cost-sharing can make an important contribution to health equity and the sustainability of health services. The report emphasizes that no government should delay committing itself to the task, although progress toward better health will vary from country to country and no single formula will apply to all. Better Health in Africa presents action plans and yardsticks for measuring progress. The idea of the core, cost-effective package of health services complements World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health with an operationally oriented perspective on health services. The report also reflects the views of organizations such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF that will work together in helping African countries adapt and implement the report's recommendations. Also available: English (ISBN 0-8213-2817-4) Stock No. 12817; French (ISBN 0-8213-2818-2) Stock No. 12818.
Author: George Mergos
Author: George Mergos
Author: Pratyusha Basu
Author: Harold Alderman
Author: R C Mascarenhas
Author: S. V. SHINDE
Author: Kenda Cunningham
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Author: Harold Alderman
Author: J. Singh M.P. Shrivastava
Author: Wilfred Candler