Businesses in India are optimistic about growth of the country’s rural consumer markets, which is expected to be growing faster than urban consumer markets. These days, there is better networking among rural consumers and their tendency to proactively seek information via multiple sources to be better informed while making purchase decisions.

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on health ensures healthy lives and promotes well-being for all at all ages. Sufficient and equitable distribution of resources is imperative on the one hand while addressing both institutional and non-institutional barriers

is also important on the other hand. Among the non-institutional barriers, socioeconomic factors significantly contribute to the

health and well-being of an individual. In this paper, the socio-economic barriers to healthcare access are studied in the context

of Bihar. The study is based on secondary data that is taken from NSS 75th round survey: consumption on health (2017-18). The

logistic regression model is used to check the significance of the relationship between healthcare access and socio-economic factors like Age, Gender, Income, Caste and Religion. The result is presented through Graphs and Charts followed by a discussion and conclusion. The study shows that all the socioeconomic attributes are significantly associated with non-access to healthcare access on all India level. However, in Bihar, only income class and education are significant barriers. Further, ‘non-chronic illness’ and ‘medical services not free’ are the two most significant barriers to healthcare access in both India and Bihar. The concentration

graph shows a large variation in healthcare access across the income quintiles. It means, the barriers to healthcare access are largely concentrated among the poor and thus, the current health programs are pro-rich. According to the result, appropriate measures are suggested at both the household and state levels to reduce the barriers to healthcare access. A comprehensive and holistic approach to health services can only ensure the achievement of SDG – 3 (Health). 

India is the second largest producer and leading exporter of rice in the international market. More than 60 per cent of the world’s population depends on rice as one of their main sources of food, and it contributes significantly to agriculture. Factors like introduction of high yielding and quality varieties along with suitable rice production technologies during the Green Revolution period has enhanced the Indian rice production and also trade liberalization is positively influenced the Indian rice export. So, present study explored the growth rate, instability and comparative advantage in export of basmati and non-basmati rice. The study used secondary data of rice export for the period 2001-02 to 2019-20. Result of the study revealed that export of basmati rice was registered higher growth at rate of 19.96 per cent as compare to non- basmati of 12.63 per cent per annum. Both basmati and non-basmati rice shows high degree of instability in export but basmati rice was found more stable (43.98 per cent) than nonbasmati with 63.46 per cent instability during the study period. The result also indicated that except USA all countries had greater than one value of revealed comparative advantage and positive value of revealed symmetric comparative advantage during the study periods. The estimated value of RCA for India had increased from 8.14 in 2001-02 to 13.14 in the year 2019-20 indicated India had comparative advantage during whole study period.

The grape is one of the most valued conventional fruits worldwide. Although most of the parts of the grapevine are useful, primarily, the grape is considered a source of unique natural products not only for the development of valuable medicines against a number of diseases but also for manufacturing various industrial products. Since the crop requires huge manpower for harvesting and other

operations, only small farmers cultivate the crop. Farmers Producers Organization is an organization of farmer-producers that provides support to small farmers with end-to-end services covering almost all aspects of cultivation, from inputs and technical services to processing and marketing. Hence, the present study was undertaken with the following objective to study the socioeconomic profile of the members and dynamics of Grape Growers Association in the Cumbum block of Theni district with a sample size of 60 farmers registered in GGA. The respondents were selected based on the purposive random sampling method. The data were collected from each respondent through a pre-tested interview schedule. The results of the study revealed that to adopt innovation farmer mostly prefer joint decision made by member of association of 58.00%, for marketing produce decision made by the member of the association of 75.00%, group activities promote cooperation among farmer, and group activity improved the knowledge of farmer due to contact with extension officer and another farmer these agreed by 75.00% and 83.30% of members respectively.

The collapse of old political frameworks of colonization and the reconfiguration of global power have been accompanied by an

impulse to redefine, reassert, and reconfigure meanings of the nation on multiple levels. As colonial powers have begun retracting

from countries they once imperialized, citizens of those countries have been given the opportunity to once again define their nation

as they perceive it, rather than accept the definitions imposed on them by other powers. In this context, this paper actually is to

examine and analyse the question of nationalism with gender identity. The key argument of this paper is that the valorisation of

‘women question’ in dominant nationalist narratives actually misread the actual nationalist discourse. Thus, this article provides an

overview of some of the key concepts and literature in the study of gender and nationalism, including women; gender; the nation

and the intersection of sexuality, race and gender within nationalist imaginations

Kerala is a state with invariant demand for vegetables for home consumption. But the production of vegetables in the state is very

low when compared to other states, which makes it a consumer state for vegetables. To meet this production insufficiency, Govt.

of Kerala launched Vegetable Development Programme (VDP) in the year 2012. The present study entitled “Constraints faced by

officials and farmers in implementing Vegetable Development Programme” was carried out in the Malappuram district of Kerala.

Untimely sanction of the subsidy, reluctance of youngsters to participate in VDP, and lack of supporting staff were reported as

the significant constraints faced by agri officials while implementing the program. Whereas the significant constraints faced by the

farmers were stated as high labor costs followed by price fluctuations of the products and problems in marketing the product the

farmer.

This paper analyzes the genesis and spatiotemporal distribution of selected rural markets. For the study, Aligarh district in the

north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been selected as a study area. There are 286 rural markets in the district which are unevenly

distributed over the space. Study is based on secondary sources and data has been collected from the Census of India, District

Census Handbook, and Gazetteer of Aligarh. The analysis made clear that the bulk of the area’s rural markets grew due to the

construction of road networks by the British government and landlords. The geographic distribution of market centers in terms

of time and space is a component of rural markets. The combined effect of physio-cultural characteristics of the specific place

determines market dynamics and their periodicities.