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Contents: 1. Agricultural Mechanization in Hills: Scope and Constraints/Sanjay Khar, Rakesh Sharma and Punit Choudhary. 2. Dairy Enterprise for Sustainable Livelihood in North East Hilly Region/Rishikanta Singh. 3. Economics and Profitability of Fodder Crops in Hills/Vikas Kumar and Sudhakar Dwivedi. 4. Socio-Economic Features of Nomadic Gujjars: Livestock Grazers of Jammu (JandK)/Tarunvir Singh and Sudhakar Dwivedi. 5. Adopting Sericulture for Sustainable Hill Agriculture/Amardev Singh. 6. Sheep Farming in Hills: A Subsidiary Enterprise for Income Generation/Suraj Parkash, Arvind Ishar and Sanjeev Kumar. 7. Underutilized Crops of Himalayan Region/Arun Gupta, Lakshmi Kant, P. K. Agrawal and V. Mahajan. 8. Alleviating Drudgery of Indian Farm Women through Technology Interventions in Animal Husbandry/Puja Mathur and Pawan Kumar Sharma. II. Theme 2 : Public/Private Support for Hill Agriculture: 9. Influence of Scientific Orientation on Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Pineapple Growers in Nagaland/K. K. Jha. III. Theme 3 : Organic Farming in Hills: Status, Scope and Economics: 10. Organic Farming in Hills: Opportunities and Constraints/A K Tripathi, A Roy, N U Singh and S Seeralan. 11. Organic Farming in Hills: An Economic Analysis of Vermi-Composting/Manoj Gupta, S. S.Paliyal and Pankaj Mittal. 12. Vermiculture Technology: Boon for Hill Agriculture/Sunil Kumar and Sanjay Sachan. IV. Theme 4 : Horticulture in Hills: Status, Scope and Economics: 13. Trends of Major Fruit Crops in Himachal Pradesh/Amod Sharma and Sudhakar Dwivedi. 14. Economic Importance of Vegetables: Exclusive to Hills/Neerja Sharma, A.K. Gupta, R.K. Sanmotra, R.K. Arora and Raju Gupta. 15. King Chilli-Current Scenario and Future Prospects in North Eastern India/S. Mahanta and K.H. Begum. 16. Seabuckthorn: An Attractive Prospect for Hill Regions/Rajander S Bali, V K Sah, Abhishek Bahuguna and Birendra Prasad. 17. Economics of Insect Pest and Disease Management in Chilli (Capsicum annuum L.)/Sandhya Bahuguna, Birendra Prasad and Abhishek Bahuguna. 18. Greenhouse Technologies for Hill Agriculture/Neerja Sharma, A. K. Gupta, R. K. Sanmotra, and R. K. Arora. V. Theme 5 : Agricultural Marketing in Hills: Status, Marketed Surplus, Producer share, Interventions etc.: 19. Agricultural Marketing in Hills: Problems and Opportunities/ Pawan Kumar Sharma, Sudhakar Dwivedi and Sudhir Jamwal. VI. Theme 6 : Status of Land Reforms and Agricultural Holdings: 20. Land Reforms and Agriculture Development for Poverty Elimination/Harnam Singh, Anil Bhat and S.P. Singh. VII. Theme 7 : Agricultural Credit and Insurance: 21. Role of Financial Agencies in Livestock Farming/B.K. Mishra, C.S. Choubey and Sunil Kumar. 22. Mitigating Agriculture Risks through Crop Insurance Anil Bhat, Jyoti Kachroo and Sudhakar Dwivedi. IX. Theme 8 : Using ICT in Hill Agriculture: 23. Information Technology for Efficient Agricultural Marketing in Hills/K Srinivas, Mukesh Kumar and S.R.K. Singh. 24. Accessibility of ICT in Uttarakhand Hills and Its Impact/Kiran Yadav, Sunil Kumar and Chandra Dev. X. Theme 9 : Facing the Challenges of WTO in Hill Agriculture: 25. WTO in Agriculture: New Dimensions/ Sudhakar Dwivedi and Shobhana Gupta. XI. Theme 10 : Sustainability Issues in Hill Agriculture: 26. New Dimensions of Agricultural Extension for Hill Agriculture/Parveen Kumar, M. S. Nain. 27. Economic Disposal of Livestock Waste/B.K. Mishra, Santosh Singh, Sunil Kumar and C.S. Choubey. 28. Sustainable Agriculture: Current Demand for Feeding the Increasing Population/S.K. Kaushik, Shobhana Gupta and KV Singh. 29. Grain Amaranth: An Economic Key to Sustainable Hill Agriculture/Birendra Prasad, Abhishek Bahuguna, Sunil Kumar and Rajander S Bali. 30. Plant-Biodiversity: Its Implications for Sustainable Hill Agriculture/Awnindra K. Singh, Permendra Singh and M.C. Dwivedi. 31. Seed Quality as Influenced by Packaging Container during Storage/Birendra Prasad and Abhishek Bahuguna. 32. Shifting Cultivation and Environmental Degradation- A Case Study of Hill Districts of Assam/Hiranya Kumar Baruah.