Farming with the Basics: Productivity, Income and Livelihood

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Review of Literature. 3. Theoretical Orientation. 4. Research Setting. 5. Research Methodology. 6. Result and Discussion. 7. Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation. 8. Future Scope of Study. Bibliography. Appendix.

Indian farming has been evolving mostly with an intrinsic and systemic contradiction; when productivity increases, income plunges; and, when both income and productivity improve simultaneously, livelihood may decline. This is mainly due to the non-integration amongst and between the production, market and livelihood. Global observers are shocked to see that with a buffer stock of 75 million tons of food grain, how does a nation reeling with hunger so harshly and which is reflected in our melancholic position on the ladder of global hunger index. The present book, based on the thesis work, carried out by Mr Debraj Roy in 2020 in a location of West Bengal under the guidance of Prof. S K Acharya of BCKV to empirically test the compliances and contradictions of these apparently conflicting issues in a way to derive a grassroot policy for the resilient strategy. A score of multivariate statistical techniques has been applied to extract the embedded factuality out of a plethora of hard evidences.