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Print ISSN 2277-5412 Online ISSN 2322-0430 Indian Journal of Economics and Development Society of Economics and Development www.soed.in Indian Journal of Economics and Development Volume 11 (4) 2015 ©Society of Economics and Development Printed and Published by Dr. Parminder Kaur on the behalf of the Society of Economics and Development Email: [email protected] Website: www.soed.in Journal is available on www.indianjournals.com Printed at PRINTVIZION 1766/1, Street No. 2 Maharaj Nagar Ludhiana-141004 Phone: 0161-2442233 Email: [email protected] Indian Journal of Economics and Development (Journal of the Society of Economics and Development) Volume 11 October-December, 2015 No. 4 Contents Research Articles Demand and supply analysis of livestock products in Andaman and Nicobar Islands 801 Ajmer Singh Optimization of farming systems on tribal farms in Uttarakhand 815 Shalini Raghav and Sanjay Kumar Srivastava Marketing of potato in Jalandhar district of Punjab 823 Amritpal Kaur and M.S. Sidhu Sugarcane production scenario in India with particular reference to Punjab 833 A.K. Brar and P. Kataria Trend analysis in market arrivals and prices of moth bean in Rajasthan 843 Subhita Kumawat and I.P. Singh Spatial price transmission in groundnut markets of Rajasthan 851 Richard Kwasi Bannor and Madhu Sharma Researching the relationship between financial and real sectors in India 861 Bhanu Pratap Singh and Alok Kumar Mishra An economic analysis of soybean cultivation in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh 869 Punit Kumar Agarwal and O.P. Singh Sustainable development through farming system approach: A study of tribal region in Central 877 Gujarat Mahammadhusen K., S. Jadav and V. B. Darji Economic analysis of milk production in Parbhani district of Marathwada region of 887 Maharashtra-A study of small scale farms Ravi Shrey and S. H. Kamble Income, saving, investment, and consumption pattern of farm households in Karnal district of 895 Haryana Jatinder K. Bhatia, Dalip Bishnoi, R.K. Khatkar, J.C. Karwasra and V.K. Singh Impact analysis of joint forest management programme on rural household income in 901 Uttarakhand Bishwa Bhaskar Choudhary and S.K. Srivastava Impact of MNREGA on household income employment generation, labour scarcity and 907 migration: A study in Dahod district of Gujarat Macwan J.D and Zala Y.C. Pairs trading in financial stock futures: An empirical investigation in Indian stock markets 915 Navdeep Aggarwal and Mohit Gupta Prospects of agritourism in Bikaner district of Rajasthan 923 Aditi Mathur, Surjeet Singh Dhaka and Urmila Research Notes Economics of vegetable production in Manipur 933 L. Priscilla and S.P. Singh Contract farming -An efficient marketing method of Ailanthus excelsa 939 A.Rohini, S. Selvanayaki and M. Padma Selvi Growth and instability of wheat production in Rajasthan 945 Meera and Hemant Sharma Use of e-health information: A case study 951 Dhiraj Kumar and Sonia Bansal Effect of contract farming on production and price of barley in the state of Rajasthan 961 Sita Ram and R.C. Kumawat Is MNREGA affecting availability, wages and cost of labour in Indian agriculture? Discerning 967 quantitative evidences Pushpa, Punit Kumar, Agarwal, Bulbul G. Nagrale and B.S. Chandel Abstracts of Dissertations/Thesis 975 Contents: Volume 11 (1, 2 and 3): 2015 979 List of Referees: Volume 11, 2015 985 Declaration Form IV (See Rule 8) 986 Society of Economics and Development Objectives 1. To promote awareness on the issues relating to economic development. 2. To promote better social and ethical values to promote development. 3. To promote economic prosperity and serve as a tool to create the consciousness for development. 4. To conduct research and publish reports on economic issues. 5. 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Alternately, the membership fee can be deposited in Saving Bank Account No. 29380100009412 (IFSC: BARB0PAULUD), Bank of Baroda, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. Indian J Econ Dev DOI: 10.5958/2322-0430.2015.00088.8 Volume 11 No. 4 (2015): 801-814 Research Article DEMAND AND SUPPLY ANALYSIS OF LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS IN ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS Ajmer Singh* ABSTRACT Livestock sector, sustains the growth of regional economy. Adequate policy measures need to be established for appreciable growth in productivity and sustainability in the regional and farm level productions and in the processing sectors. Migration of people, tourism development, increase in population, globalisation, urbanisation, increase in the economic status of people coupled with the adequate measures from governments, the demand for livestock products is on the steady increase. The effect of price and income on the demand of livestock products and other parameters on their supply is analysed; the predictions are made for the next two decades and the gaps; thereof are indicated. Key words: A&N islands, chicken, demand, egg, milk, mutton, supply JEL Classification: C21, C51, C82, Q11, Q12, R15 INTRODUCTION refugees, migrants from states of Tamilnadu, The Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) Islands, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, strategically located between 92-940 E etc. defence, and government staff members longitude and 6-140 N latitude in Bay of Bengal, and the tribes of the land. are facing problems of unemployment, non Having limited scope of agriculture in the availability of land for agriculture and industrial islands, livestock and poultry gained development, rising population, tourists’ flow appreciable improvement and emerged as the etc. The total geographical area of A&N Islands major source of self-employment and is 8249 sq km and total population in these subsidiary income. Livestock sector helps in Islands is 3.80 lakhs (Census, 2011), which alleviating poverty and acts as contributor to increased at a compound growth rate of 2.36 savings and investments (Birthal et al., 2002). percent/annum during the last three decades. There is a paradigm shift in the food At present the population of A & N islands consumption pattern towards livestock is composed of settlers from mainland India products (Gandhi et al., 2010). This structural under various government schemes, families shift is taking place in the dietary pattern for of freedom fighters, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi the last two decades. Due to aesthetic taste and budgetary allocation shift is taking place from the cereals based food to fruits, *Principal Scientist (Agri. Economics), Dairy Economics, Statistics and Management Division, vegetables and livestock products (Kumar et National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132001 al., 2011). (India) This shift would continue to intensify Email: [email protected] further with the increase in per capita income 801 (economic growth), globalisation, rapid was taken from North & middle Andaman (25), urbanisation, taste and preferences (Millar et Neil Island (15), Havelock Island (10), South al., 2008). Andaman (50) and Port Blair city (20) by simple With the rise in per capita income, demand random method. for livestock products is expected to rise faster. An equal number of non-producers were It has been observed that during