Rural Transformation in India : The Impact of Globalisation
Contents: 1. Globalisation: rural transformation/V.R. Panchamukhi. 2. Is rural India shining?/S. Mahendra Dev. 3. Rural employment in Andhra Pradesh: emerging issues and challenges/S. Sudhakar Reddy. 4. Globalisation and plundering of Indian agriculture/K.R. Chowdry. 5. Liberalisation and agricultural sector in India and Karnataka/R.S. Deshpande. 6. Challenges of agro-biotechnologies, IPR, globalization and rural transformation/Pranav N. Desai. 7. Globalisation, agricultural growth and rural poverty in India/S.S.P. Sharma. 8. Emerging technologies and sustainable agriculture: rural transformation issues of India/Dhulasi Birundha Varadarajan. 9. Changing Agrarian conditions and farmers' distress in Andhra Pradesh/C. Ratnam and K. Annie Nirmala. 10. State of rural transformation in India/M. Sundara Rao and A. Sailaja Devi. 11. Dynamics of rural poverty and unemployment/K. Nageswara Rao. 12. Small-scale industries in the era of globalisation: an explorative study/M. Jaya Krishna. 13. Globalisation: in retrospect and prospect/V.V. Reddy. 14. Globalisation and transformation of rural India: an analysis of rural labour and poverty/Prankrishna Pal. 15. Globalisation challenges to Indian agriculture/A. Vinayak Reddy, G. Bhaskar and M. Yadagira Charyulu. 16. Globalisation of Indian agriculture: reflections on food security and international trade/R. Shashi Kumar. 17. Micro enterprises in the era of globalisation: a case of Khadi and village industries/T.L.N. Swamy. 18. Globalization, agricultural sector and decentralised development in India/Dhivendranath Konar. 19. India and World Trade Organization agreement on agriculture: issues and impacts/J. Rajeswar Rao. 20. Globalisation: problems and prospects/C.S. Meena.
"Emergence of WTO and the series of deliberations under Uruguay round have changed the world economic order. Indian government has shelved the earlier protectionist policies and opened up the economy to the world market. Undoubtedly, this has helped the Indian economy to recoup its strength with the flow of international capital and technology resulting in a robust economic position. The economy is moving steadily with more than 6 per cent GDP growth rate for the last two decades or so. However, the new economic order has posed severe challenges to the agricultural and rural sectors of the economy. The biased attitude of the government towards service and industrial sectors has relegated agriculture to the backdrop. Agricultural operations have become highly cost-prone. Commercialisation and capitalization of agriculture has increased the debt burden of the small and marginal farmers who have meagre access to institutional credit. The process of globalisation has adversely affected the rural artisans too. Lack of demand for the traditional rural industries, flow of foreign goods, high-tech production processes have resulted in large-scale unemployment.
The present book attempts to highlight the challenges posed by globalisation to the agriculture sector and rural development efforts and the consequent impact on rural poverty, food security and employment situation. Macro and micro level observations on the above issues dealt with in this book will give valuable insight into current issues and problems related to rural economy of India." (jacket)
