Contents

Foreword
Preface

Chapter 1: An Economic Analysis of Dry Fish and Processed Fish Product Value Chain of Tripura

Chapter 2: Green Marketing as A Tool for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Nagaland

Chapter 3: Case Study of Status of Spring Water: A Natural Resource in Three Districts of Nagaland, India

Chapter 4: Rainwater Management in Zabo Farming System: An ITK for Sustainable Economy from Agriculture in Nagaland

Chapter 5: Extension Communication Characteristics of Tribal Sub-Plan Beneficiary Farmers of Meghalaya

Chapter 6: Emerging Supply Chain Analysis of Seed Potato in Punjab

Chapter 7: An Overview of the Challenges and Opportunities Faced by the Agricultural Sectors in India

Chapter 8 : Natural Farming: A Futuristic Eco-friendly Way of Farming

Chapter 9: Effect of Blanching on the Drying Kinetics and Behaviour of Beetroot (Beta vulgaris)

Chapter 10: Revitalising Horti-Business as a Sustainable and Viable Commercial Venture in North Eastern Hills Region - An Overview

Chapter 11: Agricultural Waste Utilization in agri-business

Chapter 12: Doubling Farmers’ Income: Dream to Reality

Chapter 13: Bootstrap and Jackknife Resampling: A Methodological Approach to Estimate Orange Fruit Crop Production in Nagaland

Chapter 14: Variability of Soil Characteristics in Kohima Village of Nagaland, India

Chapter 15: Marketing Pattern and Post-Harvest Management of Organic Large Cardamom and Ginger in East Sikkim

Chapter 16:Effect of Integrated Nutrient Management on Growth, yield and Quality of Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) under Foothill of  Nagaland

Chapter 17: Effect of Fruit Bagging on Post Harvest Life of Mango (Mangifera indica L.) cv. Amrapali

Chapter 18: Assessing Socio-Economic Profile of Ginger Growers in Niuland District, Nagaland

Chapter 19: Cost and Returns of Cotton Cultivation in Agra district of Western Uttar Pradesh

Chapter 20: Soil Erosion Estimation using Caesium-137

Chapter 21: Rubber Plantation Growers Profile in Mangkolemba block of Nagaland

Chapter 22: Marketing and Value Addition of Waste Flowers in Raipur City: A Case Study of Chhattisgarh

Chapter 23: Nurturing Agri Innovation in Value Addition & Post-Harvest Management: Some Cases from Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya RKVY RAFTAAR Agri Business Incubator (IGKV R-ABI), Raipur, Chhattisgarh

Chapter 24: Temporal Analysis of Major Kharif and Rabi Crops in Chhattisgarh

Chapter 25: Problems and Constraints Faced by Rapeseed and Mustard Growers of Jaipur District of Rajasthan

                   About the Editors

      Prof. Amod Sharma is currently working as Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, NU, SAS, Medziphema, since last 28 years involved actively in teaching, research, extension activities and consultancy works. Published 16 books, 38 book chapters, 128 research papers in national repute journals, 18 popular articles; received 16 awards and guided 14 scholars, 56 PG students for their research work; organised 6 national and 1 state seminar, 4 projects, 10 professional trainings. He is members of UC, AC, PB, BRS, SB and Chairman of BPGS of Nagaland University, life member of 12-professional bodies and attended 40 professional trainings.

     Dr. Sanjoy Das is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagaland
University, Medziphema Campus, Nagaland. He has more than 16 years of teaching experience with more than 42 number of research papers in international and national journals. He has guided more than 17 numbers of M.Sc. (Ag) Agricultural Economics Students and 1 Ph. D scholar.

     Dr. G. V. Rohith obtained his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 2021. He has the honour of coordinate to organize the national seminar and editorial board members in 02 numbers of different reputed Journals. He has published 01 numbers of books with ISBN number, 01 book chapters, 6 research papers in various reputed journals. He has an experience of 2 years of UG and PG teaching. At presently he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural Sciences (SAS) Nagaland University, Medziphema, Nagaland.

     Dr. Shagolsem Herojit Singh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagaland University, Medziphema campus, Nagaland, Dr. Singh has published more than 13 research papers in reputed journals. He acquired a B.Sc. (Agriculture) and M.Sc. (Agricultural Statistics) degree from College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal. He received his and Ph.D. (Agricultural Statistics) degree from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, with specialization in time series modelling, measuring crop yield sustainability, measuring instability and machine learning techniques viz. Artificial Neural Network, Support Vector Regression, etc.