Agricultural Economics/edited by A.C. Mittal and Sanjay Prakash Sharma. Jaipur, RBSA Publishers, 2001, viii, 200 p., tables, $28. ISBN 81-7611-115-5.

Contents: Preface. 1. Productivity and stability in crops productivity on small farms in the states of Northern India. 2. Growth, diversification and instability in Indian vis-à-vis Himachal agriculture. 3. The transmission of cost inflation in agriculture with subsistence production : a case study in Northern India. 4. Performance of irrigation in relation to agricultural productivity in North Bihar. 5. Price policy model of sugarcane and its products. 6. Input demand and output supply response of rice farmers in Gokilapuram, Tamil Nadu. 7. Input demand and output supply functions for cotton : translog profit function approach. 8. The economic efficiency of high-yielding, irrigated cotton in India. 9. Emerging trends in Virginia Tobacco : an economic analysis. 10. Can cooperative management be made efficient in Tamil Nadu? 11. Analysis of forest policy and changing scenario of wood products in India. 12. Lands-down-road paradox : an alternative interpretation of the theory of economic Dualism.

"Agricultural development has long been seen as an important factor in development process. The development literature now contains a dosen or so models of early economic growth. These invariably contain agriculture sector, but other remains shadowy; some models depend an specific institutional assumptions about agrive, and a different set of assumptions would lead to quite different results. Existing economic growth models are typically closed-economic models, and their aim is to depicit a mixed economic development path. What happens to the role of agrive. When the model is opend; some of the papers in this volume attack this issue in general terms." (jacket)

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