Dryland agriculture is an area where a rainfall of minimum 750 mm is obtained. Present condition of dryland is getting worse in south Tamil Nadu because of the recurrent drought prevails in past three years. It is a part of agriculture which plays important role in drought prone areas. As per the recent condition many suicides and migration happens in dryland agriculture. Area under dryland get depleting and getting worse too. If it unnoticed will turn to global food security issues. Having an insight in a present problem a study was conducted in Tiruppur districts of Tamil Nadu and the main objective of the study is aim to analyse the training needs of the dryland farmers with gender perspective. For identifying training need of the respondent an attempt was made in this study to find out the need by surveying respondent with covering specific topic such as subject area, duration, month, place, mode and instructor preferred for the training. Before organizing any training programme these factors have to be taken in to consideration to ensure active involvement of participants. The study revealed that training was preferred by 75.44 per cent of respondents, about 88.80 per cent of respondent preferred less than a day of training. Village extension agent was sought by the majority of respondents (70.89%) and preferred training in any of the season (88.80%) in the subject of dryland management technology.

Nurturing population and global demand for food are putting pressure on agricultural prices. Prices are a complicated prodigy. A cobweb model is innate in agricultural price policy. Setting the prices is the most difficult task for firms and the government. Meta‐analysis, and scientific and political policy analysis were approached to validate the results. The main objective of the paper is to review and analyze various agricultural price policies continent wise and selected country wise and formulate new global price policy for developed and developing countries. The study revealed that not only micro and macroeconomic indicators but also the environmental factors such as the COVID pandemic influence the prices, which may affect the producers and consumers either directly or indirectly based on the review of global prices effects. Market price supports, direct payments to producers, and reduced tariffs through trade agreements are the most common policies existing almost in all countries globally. The government must watch whether the planned policies are implemented successfully or not. The study suggests that the new Global price policy for developed countries is that they must equate international prices to domestic prices and for low‐ and middle‐income countries is that international prices + 20% to protect farmer's welfare coupled with WTO should discipline global trade with stable prices. High optimistic expectations, inadequate collaborative policymaking, dispersed governance, and the vagaries of the political cycle were the four main reasons for the failure of existing policies. Therefore, politicization is compulsory but not sufficient to illuminate accepting international organization norms and agricultural policies toward sustainable agriculture.

Global trade has increased the growth proportionally over the last two centuries. Trade increases the prosperity of nation, fueling economic growth, rising employment opportunities, reducing poverty, and raising the living standards of the people. The study period is from 1990–1991 to 2018–2019. Compound annual growth rate (CAGR), coefficient of variation, moving average method, terms of trade, and elasticity of total merchandise, agricultural, and commercial crops exports and imports were used to achieve objectives. The study revealed that agricultural trade shared very less percentage out of total merchandise trade in the world, that is, 7.55%. South America and South Africa (poor continent) have shown the highest percentage of agricultural commodities traded out of total merchandise trade. Richest continents such as Europe, North America, and Asia shared very less percentage of agricultural commodities traded to total merchandise trade. Globally, China, USA, and Germany highly expanded their trade. China and Republic of Korea were the largest exporting and importing countries of total traded goods. Brazil, Spain, and China were shown the highest significant growth potential of agricultural exports, whereas China, Canada, and USA have shown the highest growth rate of agricultural imports in the world during the study period. America was exporting more quantity of cotton, tea, rubber, and opium while importing tobacco and coffee. Asia was exporting more quantity of sugar crops and coffee while importing cotton, jute, opium, rubber, tea, and tobacco. Africa was exporting more quantity of cotton, jute, tea, and rubber while importing sugar crops, cocoa, tobacco, and coffee. Europe was exporting more quantity of tea, rubber, opium, tobacco, and coffee while importing cocoa. More quantity of opium by America and Europe; coffee by Europe; and sugar crops by Asia was exported with the highest price in the world. Terms of trade was favored for sugar crops, jute, opium, and coffee in the Africa; cocoa, opium, rubber, tea, and coffee in the Europe; and rubber in the America. Export price elasticity of sugar crops, cotton, jute, opium, rubber, and coffee in the America; jute in the Asia; cotton, rubber, and tobacco in the Africa; and sugar crops, opium, rubber, tea, tobacco, and coffee in the Europe was marginally greater than their imports. Countries governments that are growing commercial crops must give prominence in framing price policies for the cash crops. Governments should take action against the unfair competition existing in the international markets of cash crops especially for opium and tobacco. The study found that even Neoliberal globalization modern period also, developing countries and continents such as Africa, Latin America and South America trade economies are more depend on agriculture and developed countries more on manufactured sector. Developing countries and continents must design strategies and policies to promote manufactured sectors keeping agriculture sector self‐sufficiency.

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