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JOURNAL OF RURAL COOPERATION Vol. 36 No. 1 2008 Special Issue Social Capital and Rural Governance in Central and Eastern Europe The Center for Agricultural Economic Research המרכז למחקר בכלכלה חקלאית THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY MAGNES PRESS, JERUSALEM INDIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS (Organ of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics) Vol. 62 JULY-SEPTEMBER 2007 No.3 CONTENTS TRENDS IN RURAL FINANCE Performance of Rural Credit and Factors Affecting the Choice of Credit Sources Anjani Kumar, Dhiraj K. Singh and Prabhat Kumar Production and Investment Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks in India: Need for a Systematic Approach Arvind Awasthi Innovating Savings Products for Rural People - Lessons from Market Research Sanjeev Kapoor Adequacy of Institutional Credit through Co-operatives in Maharashtra: A Region-wise Analysis Deepak Shah Financing Agriculture: A Study of Bihar and West Bengal Potato Cultivation Summaries Arun Pandit, N.K. Pandey, Barsati Lal, K.P. Chandran and Rajesh K. Rana .. .. .. .. .. TRADING IN LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS Livestock Sector Trade of India: Surging Momentum in the New Liberalised Regime Anjani Kumar, Steven J. Staal, N.P. Singh and Dhiraj K. Singh India’s Trade Performance in Livestock and Livestock Products D. Bardhan Implications of Trade Liberalisation on Indian Dairy Sector: An Empirical Analysis T.R. Rajarajan, V. Saravanakumar and Raj Vir Singh Marketing of Liquid Milk: A Case Study of Ahmedabad Milk Market Sukhpal Singh Summaries .. .. .. .. .. RISK MANAGEMENT IN AGRICULTURE/RURAL SECTOR Reducing the Risk in Livestock Production: Factors Influencing the Adoption of Vaccination Against Bovine Diseases A. Suresh, D.C. Gupta, M.R. Solanki and J.S. Mann An Economic Evaluation of Environmental Risk of Pesticide Use: A Case Study of Paddy, Vegetables and Cotton in Irrigated Eco-system Alka Singh, Ranjit Kumar and D.K. Das Observatory Estimation of Risk in the Use of Fertilisers in High-Yielding Varieties of Wheat and Paddy in Central Region of Uttar Pradesh Archana Shukla An Integrated Evaluation of Trade-Offs between Environmental Risk Factors and Food Production Using Interactive Multiple Goal Linear Programming – A Case Study of Haryana A.K. Vasisht, S. Sujith Kumar, P.K. Aggarwal, N. Kalra, H. Pathak, H.C. Joshi and R.C. Choudhary Summaries .. .. .. .. .. RAPPORTEURS’ REPORTS Rapporteur’s Report on Risk Management in Agriculture/Rural Sector S.K. Tewari Rapporteur’s Report on Trading in Livestock and Livestock Products U.K. Pandey Rapporteur’s Report on Trends in Rural Finance Bharat Ramaswami Annual Subscription Rates Individual Membership Fee : Rs. 300.00; £ 35.00; $ 75.00. Life Membership Fee : Rs. 3,000.00; £ 350.00; $ 750.00. Institutional Subscription : Rs. 600.00; £ 54.00; $ 125.00. Please address correspondence to the Hon. Secretary & Treasurer, The Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Krishi Vikas Sadan, 1st Floor, Cadell Road, Dadar (West), Mumbai-400 028 (India). Telephone : 022-24374789; Fax : 091-022-24374790; email : [email protected] website: www.isaeindia.org The Center for Agricultural Economic Research P.O. Box 12, Rehovot, 76100, Israel http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/economics/econocene.html The Center for Agricultural Economic Research is a nonprofit organization established in 1968 and supported by the Hebrew University, the Government of Israel, Bank Leumi LeIsrael and Bank Hapoalim. Professor Yair Mundlak is the chairman of the Board of Trustees. Professor Israel Finkelshtain is the Director of Research. 1.07 2.07 3.07 4.07 5.07 6.07 7.07 8.07 9.07 10.07 11.07 12.07 13.07 14.07 15.07 16.07 17.07 18.07 Recent Discussion Papers Joseph Gogodze, Iddo Kan and Ayal Kimhi - Land Reform and Rural Well Being in the Republic of Georgia: 1996-2003. Uri Shani, Yacov Tsur, Amos Zemel & David Zilberman - Irrigation Production Functions with Water-Capital Substitution. Masahiko Gemma and Yacov Tsur - The Stabilization Value of Groundwater and Conjunctive Water Management under Uncertainty. Ayal Kimhi - Does Land Reform in Transition Countries Increase Child Labor? Evidence from the Republic of Georgia. Larry Karp and Yacov Tsur - Climate Policy When the Distant Future Matters: Catastrophic Events with Hyperbolic Discounting. Gilad Axelrad and Eli Feinerman - Regional Planning of Wastewater Reuse for Irrigation and River Rehabilitation. Zvi Lerman - Land Reform, Farm Structure, and Agricultural Performance in CIS Countries. Ivan Stanchin and Zvi Lerman - Water in Turkmenistan. Larry Karp and Yacov Tsur - Discounting and Climate Change Policy. Xinshen Diao, Ariel Dinar, Terry Roe and Yacov Tsur - A General Equilibrium Analysis of Conjunctive Ground and Surface Water Use with an Application to Morocco. Barry K. Goodwin, Ashok K. Mishra and Ayal Kimhi - Household Time Allocation and Endogenous Farm Structure: Implications for the Design of Agricultural Policies. Kan Iddo, Leizarowitz Arie and Tsur Yacov - Dynamic-spatial management of coastal aquifers. Tsur Yacov and Zemel Amos - Climate change policy in a growing economy under catastrophic risks. Zvi Lerman and David J. Sedik - Productivity and Efficiency of Corporate and Individual Farms in Ukraine. Zvi Lerman and David J. Sedik - The Role of Land Markets in Improving Rural Incomes. Ayal Kimhi - Regression-Based Inequality Decomposition: A Critical Review and Application to Farm-Household Income Data. Ayal Kimhi and Hila Rekah - Are Changes in Farm Size and Labor Allocation Structurally Relataed? Dynamic Panel Evidence from Israel. Larry Karp and Yacov Tsur - Time Perspective, Discounting and Climate Change Policy. FillerAds 12/5/07 3:27 PM Page 1 To access international literature as diverse as the study of sociology, start here. 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