Indian Agriculture

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Planning strategy. 3. Land and water use --irrigation system. 4. Farm planning and cropping pattern. 5. Agricultural inputs and farm credit. 6. Production oriented credit system. 7. Soil conservation and land development. 8. Animal Husbandry, Piggery, Poultry and Fishery. 9. Infrastructure--I: institutional. 10. Infrastructure--II: Physical. 11. Administration and implementation. 12. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

"Our argument in this book is that India started its develop-ment efforts in the post-independence period with a more or less correct approach towards the problem of technological choice in agriculture, based on a balanced assessment of the requirements of growth and equity; however, in the following decades, the technology policy changed to incorporate more and more inappropriate techniques of production. It will be seen that even though Indian agriculture is pre-eminently private, consisting of hundreds of millions of individual cultivators, government policy has had a decisive role in shaping the technological basis of Indian agriculture. This policy has been, to a very large extent, a direct result of western influence, especially that of the united states." (jacket)