Cropping pattern changes in SAT India. Factors underlying changes in cropping patterns. Towards globalization of Indian agriculture.
Resource use efficiency and effective incentives.
Trade liberalization and efficiency gains. Conclusions, policy implications and observations. This book addresses the issue of resource use efficiency of indigenous production versus imports in the light of India's liberalization programmes since 1991 and the signing of the Uruguay Round Agreement in 1994. India's yellow revolution, associated with the quick spread of oilseeds since the 1980s, has received little attention as compared to the green revolution. It has brought a dramatic change in cropping patterns in these dry parts which comprise of over 60 per cent of the net cropped area and constitute over 80 per cent of India's production of coarse grains, pulses, oilseeds and cotton.