Handbook of Agriculture in India

Herausgeber: Ray, Shovan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides an overview of Indian Agriculture comprehensively covering the diverse issues ranging from environment to culture and dealing with contemporary issues on poverty and subsidies. The contributors evaluate the state of Indian agriculture in relation with: state and central economic policies and their impact on the economic and societal environment. It discusses the green revolution and its limited impact on productivity and environment which was restricted to certain agro-climatic zones. The volume discusses in detail the challenging tasks ahead for Indian agriculture to achieve food security at the individual level and not only at national level. Contributors argue the growth needs to increase for which focus needs to be shifted to all regions and crops in the context of globalization. The benefits need to be more fairly distributed.

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This timely handbook recounts India's agricultural developments to note the achievements and successes on many fronts in the last few decades. The volume reviews key issues such as: central and state economic policies and agriculture; distribution of benefits of green revolution; food security; agricultural subsidies; rural-urban linkages and changing agrarian system; migration and crisis management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 173mm x 226mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780198062516
• ISBN-10: 0198062516
• Artikelnr.: 27379955

Autorenporträt

Shovan Ray is Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Overview;
* 2: Economic and Agriculture Policy in India;
* 3: Part-I Agriculture and Environment; Part-II: Zero-tillage for
reducing negative environmental impacts of agriculture;
* 4: Role of Agriculture in the Poverty Reduction Process in India;
* 5: Food Security and Agriculture;
* 6: Rural Urban Migration: Agriculture and Crisis Management;
* 7: Changing Agrarian System and Rural Urban Linkages in India in the
Context of Social Viability;
* 8: The Vanishing Village: Culture and Agriculture in Rural North
India; References.