...' digital exclusion, particularly in the Indian context. Design/methodology/approach Using a structured questionnaire, a conceptual model is developed and empirically tested after data collection from 660 rural households in Tamil Nadu, India. Using hierarchical regression, the study finds that rural...

...Soumyadwip Das; Sumit Kumar Maji Purpose Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy. Over 50% of the workforce is engaged in the agricultural sector, and at least 14% of India's GDP emanates from the farm sector. The present study aims to assess the technical efficiency of paddy farmers...

...Soumyadwip Das; Sumit Kumar Maji Purpose The study aims to explore the savings behaviour of Indian farmers. An attempt is also made to inspect the effect of financial literacy (FL) and financial confidence (FC) on the savings behaviour of the farmers in India. Design/methodology/approach...

...Sumit Kumar Maji; Arindam Laha Purpose The article makes a modest attempt to explore the level of financial literacy (FL) amongst the farmers in India. An effort was also made to unearth the factors affecting such FL. Design/methodology/approach The study used secondary data on 11,030 farmers...

... insurance in India has failed. Logit model estimates of correlates of adoption indicated that households with larger family size, lower social group, less education, lower standard of living and poor were more likely to be left out of the ambit of crop insurance. Further, propensity score estimates...

... and spot market prices of major agricultural commodities in India. Design/methodology/approach The efficiency of the futures market for 12 agricultural commodities, traded at one of the largest commodity exchanges of India, i.e. National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd, has been explored...