Economic Reforms And Agriculture Development
Contents: Preface. Introduction/Anil Kumar Thakur and Praveen Sharma. 1. Dimensions of growth and disparity in commercial bank credit to agriculture analysis of recent data/R.K. Panda. 2. Flow of institutional credit to agriculture in India: an overview/Nahid Akhtar Siddiqi and Mohammad Asif. 3. Micro Finance Programme through SHG-Bank linkage and rural development/Swarnabha Das, Swati Mukherjee and Santosh Kumar Dutta. 4. Flow of credit to small and marginal farmers/Chandra Prakash Azad and Kumari Sudama Yadav. 5. Economic reforms and export performance in Indian agriculture/M. Giribabu. 6. Economic reforms and agricultural export in India: trends and competitiveness/Sudipta Sarkar, Prankrishna Pal and Debjani Mitra. 7. Agricultural exports of India in the new economic environment (from 1991-92 to 2007-08)/Rishi Vivek Dhar and U.S. Rai. 8. Rationality, social responsibility and market failure: some empirical evidences about futures trading of wheat in India/Arvind Awasthi. 9. Emergence of fresh food retail chains: impact on farmers/Seema Bathla and R.K. Sharma. 20. Growing distress in Indian agriculture: issues and measures. 11. Agrarian suicides with reference to Vidarbha in Maharashtra. 12. Poverty and agrarian distress in Orissa/Sriit Mishra. 13. Mitigation of agricultural risks: a review of strategies/Rajeev Johari. 14. Land operation issues and agrarian relation for equity and efficiency in Indian economy/Vinod Kumar Srivastava and Meenu Verma. 15. Structural reforms in Indian economy and perspective role of agriculture upon food security and PDS/Debdas Ganguly and Pankaj Basu. 16. Food security system in India: problem and alleviation/Rajnath. 17. Impact of green evolution on agricultural development in India/D. Pulla Rao. 18. India’s agricultural trade and economic liberalization: issues and challenges/Nazia Iqbal Hashmi. 19. Growth and instability of foodgrains production in Tamil Nadu/Raj Kumar and S. Sendilkumar. 20. Agricultural production in India and WTO/Harapriya Patnaik and Puspanjali Patnaik. 21. Structural reform in agriculture/Madhusudan Mishra and Suman. 22. Co-operative village banks: a viable model for agricultural co-operative credit in India/V.B. Jugale. 23. Export-oriented agricultural growth and its consequences/Pushpa Kumari. 24. Diversification of agriculture in Orissa/Sandhya Rani Das and R.P. Sarma. 25. Trends and issues of Indian agriculture in post-reform period/Dushyant Kumar, J.P. Singh and Bhoopal Singh. 26. Agriculture and farmers: need to discuss issues separately/Bhupendra V. Singh, Nripendra P. Singh and Akhilesh K. Sharma. 27. Structural reforms and agrarian crisis in India/Amrendra Kumar Singh and Rajeev Kumar Singh/Amrendra Kumar Singh and Rajeev Kumar Singh. 28. Economic reforms and Indian agriculture: Issues and challenges/Ram Pravesh Singh and Gopal Kumar Singh. 29. Indian agriculture issues and challenges under WTO regimes/K. Hari Babu, K. Mahendra Kumar and P. Mercy Kumari. Index.
Economic reforms have introduced substantial changes in many sectors of the Indian economy, more particularly in the industrial trade and financial sectors. These have imparted a much-needed buoyancy to the Indian economy. However, in a country like India, success of reforms on the final count hinges on the performance of agriculture. A lot more thinking and purposeful action are needed at this stage to reinvigorate this sector.
Since agriculture is a state subject, the success in agricultural performance is crucially dependent on the policies and action initiated by he states. This is an opportune time, therefore, to give serious considerations to various facets of agriculture development in the state against the back drop of the new economic reforms pursued at the national level.
The present book thus facilitates a meaningful discussion in the relevant issues including terms of trade, external trade market and globalization, food security, price subsidies and issues in cost recovery, technological and extension and agricultural credit. It is hoped that the research papers of this book will be useful and will inevitably provoke an extensive debate on the subject.
