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Agricultural Development in North-East India : Issues and Options

Edited by K K Bagchi, Abhijeet, 2008, xxvi, 398 p, tables, ISBN : 81-89886-44-8, $55.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)
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Agricultural Development in North-East India : Issues and Options/edited by K.K. Bagchi

Contents: Preface and acknowledgements. Introduction/K.K. Bagchi. I. General issues on agricultural development: 1. Present status, potentials, problems and strategies for agricultural development in North-Eastern States/Anuva Saikia. 2. Assessment of agricultural development in North East/Subhasis Mandal, K.K. Datta, M.R. Verma and A.K. Tripathi. 3. Agricultural development in North-Eastern region of India/S.S. Kalamkar. 4. Quest for resource sustainable and economically highly remunerative alternatives to agriculture development in North Eastern region of India/A.K. Mishra and J.P. Misra. 5. Tech-economic and institutional factors in the development dynamics of agriculture in North-east India/M.P. Bezbaruah. 6. Institutional finance for development of North-Eastern region: retrospect and prospects/Gopakumaran Nair G. 7. Growth and diversification of agriculture in the North-East India/K.C. Borah and D.K. Chakraborty. 8. Agricultural growth and diversification in Eastern and North-eastern India in the era of economic reforms/P.M. Passah. 9. Economic upliftment through watershed development in North Eastern Regions of India/R.P. Singh, Ranjit Kumar and N.P. Singh. 10. Status of coffee development programmes in North-eastern States of India--a performance analysis/K.B. Umesh, B.M. Shashidhara and Venu B.N. 11. Issues in growth and sustainability of sugar sector development in North-east Region of India/Ashwani Kumar Sharma and D.V. Yadav. 12. Indian tea industry: growth and trade prospects in context of global competition/K.C. Talukdar. 13. An agro economic scenario--the menace of SEZs/B. Datta Ray. II. State specific and crop specific issues on agricultural development: 14. Agricultural growth and the cropping pattern changes in Assam during 1951-52 to 1999-2000/Pravat Kumar Kuri and Bidyut Kumar Ghosh. 15. Food grains production in Assam: an analysis of growth and instability/Juthika Barman and K.K. Barman. 16. Growth of crops, extent of diversification and effect of technology with special reference to rice in the flood plains of Assam/K.C. Talukdar. 17. Post-harvest loss and food security--a study on fruits and vegetables of Assam/C. Hazarika. 18. Status and constraints of potato production in Assam: an empirical study/Arun Pandit, N.K. Pandey, Rajesh K. Rana, N.R. Kumar and K.P. Chandran. 19. Farm size and tenurial status of farmer and practice of modern farming in Assam/Niranjan Roy. 20. Agriculture in Riverine situation: analysis of technology adoption and constraints of development of Char areas of North Bank Plains Zone in Assam/R.N. Barman and R. Das. 21. Factors and constraints affecting adoption of new agricultural technology in Assam with special reference to Barpeta District: an empirical study/Aftab Uddin Ahmed. 22. Problems and prospects of watershed development projects in Manipur/S.B. Singh and S.V. Ngachan. 23. Agricultural development and structural changes in the NSDP of Meghalaya/S.V. Hariharan and M. Anandan. 24. Agriculture in the Arunachal economy: from reproduction to growth/N.C. Roy. 25. Horticulture in Arunachal Pradesh: how to initiate agro-processing in the state/S.S. Sangwan. 26. Current status and role of agriculture in the economic development of Sikkim/Subhabrata Chakrabarti.

"Economic development of North Eastern India, has become a serious issue of concern, as it is linked with the poverty removal, curbing insurgency and national integration. Under the spatio-temporal conditions of North-Eastern Region, agricultural development is the best bet for achieving abovementioned objectives. In this book about forty-four economists and agricultural scientists from the north eastern region discuss various issues of agricultural development in North-East India, consisting of seven sisters states, Sikkim and North Bengal also." (jacket)

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