Reforming Indian Agriculture
Towards Employment Generation and Poverty Reduction Essays in Honour of G K Chadha
- Sankar Kumar Bhaumik - University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
This book also focuses on the issues of employment, poverty, food, and nutrition. Other aspects of development policy reviewed are those of fostering inter-state cooperation or optimum utilization of resources, privatization policy to mobilize funds for social sector development, and pattern of adoption of improved technologies by small scale industries in India.
Apart from providing macro level analyses, the book incorporates some studies based on micro field data to grasp better the realities pertaining to the Indian agrarian economy.
At a time when India is faced with a deep agrarian crisis and the government is attempting to respond to new challenges, the issues covered in this book will facilitate understanding of the current challenges and fresh interventions needed for a new era of development for faster and more inclusive growth.
The essays are all scholarly and authoritative in nature. This book is a timely contribution, when there is widespread awareness of the need to revitalize our agricultural and rural economy, and build a sustainable National Food Security System…. This is an exceedingly well-researched and written publication dealing with the issues ranging from the fatigue of the green revolution to pervasive malnutrition and poverty.
This book is a collection of essays contributed by colleagues, friends and students of Professor G.K. Chadha to honour him for his remarkable contribution in the field of agricultural and development economics for a period spanning over four decades, and motivating serious policy-oriented research in India, specifically focusing on issues concerning the well-being of the poorer sections. Chapterisation of the book and sequencing of the articles is very apt….This book will be invaluable for students, researchers and academicians working in the fields of Development Economics, Rural and Agricultural Economics and Development Policy Analysis.
Scanning agrarian reforms, this collection examines today’s policies and what needs to be done….The sheer weight of research that forms the backbone of each essay makes this book ideal reference material for academicians and students in related fields.
This compilation includes original essays that examine past and current status of agricultural sector in India and delineate the challenges it faces in the era of economic reforms.