Structural Reforms and Agriculture
Contents: Preface. List of contributors. Introduction/Anil Kumar Thakur and Mithilesh Kumar Sinha. I. Structural Reforms and Agricultural Growth: Sustainability and Other Issues: 1. Structural reforms and agriculture: issues and policies/S. Mahendra Dev. 2. Economic reforms and growth of agriculture in India: a review/Fakhre Alam, Rais Ahmad, Ejaz Anwer and M.A. Salam. 3. Agriculture in sust6aining Indian economic growth/Tushar Kanti Das and Lopamudra Mishra. 4. Agricultural deceleration in Uttar Pradesh: an ecological, institutional and technological investigation/Sanatan Nayak. 5. Crop biotechnology: a way to sustainable solution/Kiran Singh and Ajay Singh. 6. Trends in investment in Indian agriculture: impact of structural reforms/Poonam Singh. 7. Determinants of capital formation in Andhra Pradesh agriculture/P. Narasimha Rao. 8. Corporatisation of contact farming in Karnataka/S. Erappa. 9. Impact of institutional credit on aggregate agricultural production in India during post-reform period/Md. Izhar Ahmad and Tariq Masood. 10. Analysis of the impact of terms of trade on rural poverty in India/Roli Mishra, P.S. Tripathi and Rajesh Nigam. II. Structural Reforms, Agriculture and Food Security: 11. Food security of India under WTO regime: availability access and affordability of food, PDS and food subsidy/Ravi Ranjan. 12. Agriculture diversification in India: emerging trends and policy implications/Sanjeev Kumar. 13. Globalisation, food security and sustainable agriculture in India/S.S. Kalamkar. 14. Genetically modified crops: the essence of second green revolution and food security/S.M. Jawed Akhtar, Md. Imdadul Haque and Mohd. Sharif. 15. Cohort induced reforms in food front: The case of Indian agriculture/Bipul Malakar and Sudip Jana. 16. Food security and structural reforms in India/Indu Upadhyay. III. Structural Reforms, Livestock and Agriculture in India: 17. Trends in public expenditure in livestock sector of India during the period of economic reforms/K. Elumalai. 18. Impact of WTO on Indian agriculture with special reference to livestock sector/Rajender Kumar. Index.
During reform era agricultural sector witnessed stagnant trend in food production. Instead of benefiting the farmers, the process of economic liberalization and globalization is compounding their apprehension and insecurity. Rural unemployment is increasing making the rural youth desperate. So, there is an urgent need for Second Green Revolution in Indian agriculture and taking it to higher trajectory of 4 per cent annual growth.
With the objective of bringing and discussing various issues of agricultural sector of India so far the Indian Economic Association declared, Structural Reforms and Agriculture as one of the themes for deliberations during its 92nd Annual Conference, held at School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa under the presidentship of Prof. C.H. Hanumantha Rao during December 27-29, 2009. Out of several scholarly papers submitted and presented on this theme during the conference 18 papers have been selected for inclusion in this book. There is an introduction added for the convenience of the readers, which outlines main issues, and the central tenet of the book along with a brief summary of each paper.
During reform era agricultural sector witnessed stagnant trend in food production. Instead of benefiting the farmers, the process of economic liberalization and globalization is compounding their apprehension and insecurity. Rural unemployment is increasing making the rural youth desperate. So, there is an urgent need for Second Green Revolution in Indian agriculture and taking it to higher trajectory of 4 per cent annual growth.
With the objective of bringing and discussing various issues of agricultural sector of India so far the Indian Economic Association declared, Structural Reforms and Agriculture as one of the themes for deliberations during its 92nd Annual Conference, held at School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa under the presidentship of Prof. C.H. Hanumantha Rao during December 27-29, 2009. Out of several scholarly papers submitted and presented on this theme during the conference 18 papers have been selected for inclusion in this book. There is an introduction added for the convenience of the readers, which outlines main issues, and the central tenet of the book along with a brief summary of each paper.
