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• 2016

Pages: 666

ISBN: 9789332703360

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Vicissitudes of Agriculture in the Fast Growing Indian Economy

Challenges, Strategies and the Way Forward

C. Ramasamy‚ K.R. Ashok (Eds.)

Description

This edited volume was one of the significant activities planned and organised as part of the Platinum Jubilee (2015) Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (ISAE). Comprising 28 chapters including the Introduction, it presents scholarly works describing the vicissitudes and structural crisis which Indian agriculture is subject to in recent times and likely to encounter in the future—both in the short and the long run. The chapters are categorised into six broad development issues, namely, (i) structural transformation of agricultural sector, (ii) issues related to agricultural growth, (iii) agricultural policy and institutions, (iv) food security issues, (v) agricultural markets and prices, and (vi) natural resource management for agriculture. The array of topics covered in the volume would be found very useful by the researchers, students, teachers, scholars, policy makers besides other stakeholders in Indian agriculture.

About the Author(s) / Editor(s)

C. Ramasamy was Vice Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. He is PhD (Agricultural Economics) from University of Minnesota, USA; MSc (Agricultural Economics) from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and BSc (Agriculture) from University of Madras. Earlier, he was Director, Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development Studies, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. His major fields of specialisation are: technology and impact evaluation, agriculture and rural development, international economics, research investment economics, natural resource and environmental economics.

K.R. Ashok, Professor (Agricultural Economics), Department of Agricultural Economics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, has 25 years of experience in teaching/research/extension. His area of specialisation are: natural resource and environmental economics, agricultural development, climate change economics, and development evaluation.

Contributors

S.S. Acharya

K.H. Anantha

Bina Agarwal

Yoginder K. Alagh

Vishwa Ballabh

Humnath Bandhari

Pritha Banerjee

Pooja Batra

K.M. Bruhan

M.G. Chandrakanth

P.G. Chengappa

T. Chiranjeevi

Lin Crase

S. Mahendra Dev

Vasant P. Gandhi

Madhusudan Ghosh

Ashok Gulati

T. Haque

Aldas Janaiah

Girish K. Jha

P.K. Joshi

Ramappa K.B.

Ankita Kandpal

Elumalai Kannan

Anjani Kumar

Praduman Kumar

Arun M.

Samarendu Mohanty

M.V. Nadkarni

A. Narayanamoorthy

Suresh Pal

R. Radhakrishna

Rajeswari S. Raina

K.V. Raju

D. Sree Rama Raju

Nilakantha Rath

D. Narasimha Reddy

V. Ratna Reddy

Balaji S.J.

H.S. Shylendra

Katar Singh

Sukhpal Singh

Suhas P. Wani

C.G. Yadav

Contents in detail:

Introduction C. Ramasamy and K.R. Ashok

1.Structure of Indian Agriculture: Growth and Policy Epochs
Yoginder K.Alagh

2.Indian Agriculture through Challenges: Old and New
M.V. Nadkarni

3.The State of India’s Rural Economy: A Diagnostic Analysis
Katar Singh

4.Diversification of Indian Agriculture Towards High Value
Commodities: A Temporal and Spatial Analysis
Chengappa P.G., Arun M. and Yadava C.G.

5.Transforming Agriculture in Eastern India:
Challenges and Opportunities
P.K. Joshi and Anjani Kumar

6.Well-being of Agricultural Households in
Post-Reform India
R. Radhakrishna and D. Sree Rama Raju

7.Rice Sector in India: Performance, Policies and Challenges
Humnath Bandhari, Aldas Janaiah and Samarendu Mohanty

8.Women in Agriculture and the Feminisation Hypothesis
An Exploratory Analysis
D. Narasimha Reddy

9.Science for a New Agricultural Policy
Rajeswari S. Raina

10.Accelerating Transformation of Indian Agriculture:
Technological and Institutional Imperatives
Suresh Pal, Girish K. Jha, Balaji S.J.and Ankita Kandpal

11.The Changing Face of Rain-fed Agriculture: Need for
Integration of Science, Policy and Institutions
V. Ratna Reddy and T. Chiranjeevi

12.Institutional Partnerships and Policy Process to Boost
  Productivity of Rain-fed Agriculture in Karnataka, India:
  A Case Study of Bhoochetana
K.V. Raju, Suhas P Wani and K.H. Anantha

13.Challenges of Accelerated Diversified and Inclusive
Agricultural Growth in India
T. Haque

14.Economic Use of Flow Irrigation Water: A Completely Neglected
Subject in Indian Agricultural Policy
Nilakantha Rath

15.Farmers in Distress and Resources Under-stress:
A Completely Neglected Subject in Indian Agricultural Policy
Vishwa Ballabh and Pooja Batra

16.Rethinking Agricultural Production Collectivities: The Case
for a Group Approach to Energise Agriculture and Empower
Small Farmers
  Bina Agarwal

17.Food Insecurity, Poverty and Hunger in India
  Madhusudan Ghosh

18.Food Demand Projections To 2030: India
  Praduman Kumar and P.K. Joshi

19.Price and Non-Price Factors in Agricultural
Development: Emerging Issues and Policies
S. Mahendra Dev

20.Organised Retailing in India’s Agriculture: Issues
Related to Entry of Organised Retail and Foreign
Direct Investment
  Shabd S. Acharya

21.Inclusive Food Value Chains in India: Evidence and Drivers
  Sukhpal Singh

22.Fertiliser Subsidy: Key Issues and Policy Options
  Ashok Gulati and Pritha Banerjee

23.Why is Financial Recovery of Irrigation Sector Low
in India? A Spatial and Temporal Analysis
  Narayanamoorthy

24.Joint Forest Management: An Assessment
   H.S. Shylendra

25.Adoption of Soil Nutrient Management Technology:
Farm Level Analysis of Paddy Farmers in Karnataka
  Elumalai Kannan and Ramappa K.B.

26.Adoption of Soil Nutrient Management Technology:
Farm Level Analysis of Paddy Farmers in Karnataka
  M.G. Chandrakanth and K.M. Bruhan

27.New Institutional Economics, Governance and the
   Performance of Water Institutions in India
   Vasant P. Gandhi and Lin Crase