Indian Agriculture: Role and Challenges

Contents: Preface. 1. Agricultural finance in India: policy, progress and issues/S.M. Jawed Akhtar and Saba Parveen. 2. Agricultural growth and its linkages in India/Deepak Kumar Behera. 3. An investigation into the effect of Uma Variety in Paddy cultivation: A comparison with other varieties – Jyothi, Aishwarya and Conventional/Mohamed Saalim PK. 4. Education for sustainable agricultural and rural development: challenges for India in the 21st century/Ismail Thamarasseri. 5. Empowering rural women through group based land rights/Dimple Tresa Abraham. 6. Impact of crop insurance on area, production and total revenue – a case study in Hooghly District/Maniklal Adhikary and Sk. Tibul Hoque. 7. Land, education and subalternity in India: A critique in the light of globalization/Sunil Kumar Mannil. 8. Organic farming and agriculture sustainability in India/H.R. Prajapati. 9. Profile, structure and status of agriculture in Jammu and Kashmir/Vinod Sen and Raoof Ahmad Lone. 10. Role of agriculture in Indian Economy/Dattatray Sitaram Bagade. 11. System of rice intensification as a revolution over conventional method: an economic analysis/Fathimath Sajna V. 12. The system of rice intensification Vs. traditional system of rice cultivation: prospects and problems/Sajith Kumar S. 13. The trends in production and productivity of food grain in post reforms period/Tasleem Araf Cash. 14. Trends and composition of institutional credit to agriculture in India/Jisha K.K. Index.

Agricultural economics originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock - a discipline known as agronomics. Agronomics was a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. Today, the field of agricultural economics has transformed into a more integrative discipline which covers farm management and production economics, rural finance and institutions, agricultural marketing and prices, agricultural policy and development, food and nutrition economics, and environmental and natural resource economics. In this book, the editor has compiled various scholarly papers on the different aspects of Indian agricultural economics. This book discusses important issues and concerns in Indian agricultural economics. The role of agriculture, trends in production, sustainable agriculture, employment participation in agriculture, etc., are few of them. The editor hopes this book is useful for those who interested in economics in general and students of B.A., M.A., Ph.D. scholars in particular. The editor expresses his gratitude to the authors of all these great works.