Indian agriculture after the green revolution
Subtitle: changes and challenges
By: edited by Binoy Goswami, Madhurjya Prasad Bezbaruah and Raju Mandal
Series: Routledge studies in the modern world economy -- 172; Routledge studies in the modern world economy -- 172.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781315268538
Subjects: Agriculture; History; Aspect économique; Histoire; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Industries; General; Economic aspects
Description: "From a country plagued with chronic food shortage, the Green Revolution turned India into a food-grain self-sufficient nation within the decade of 1968-1978. By contrast, the decade of 1995-2005 witnessed a spate in suicides among farmers in many parts of the country. These tragic incidents were symptomatic of the severe stress and strain that the agriculture sector had meanwhile accumulated. The book recounts how the high achievements of the Green Revolution had overgrown to a state of this 'agrarian crisis'. In the process, it also brings to fore the underlying resilience and innovativeness in the sector which enabled it not just to survive through the crisis but to evolve and revive out of it. The need of the hour is to create an environment that will enable the sector to acquire the robustness to contend with the challenges of lifting levels of farm income and coping with Climate Change. To this end, a multi-pronged intervention strategy has been suggested. Reviving public investment in irrigation, tuning agrarian institutions to the changed context, strengthening of market institution for better farm-market linkage and financial access of farmers, and preparing the ground for ushering in technological innovations should form the major components of this policy paradigm."--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction  -- BINOY GOSWAMI; title: chapter 2 Indian agriculture after the Green Revolution: an overview KIRTTI RANJAN PALTASINGH, PHANINDRA GOYARI --; title: chapter 3 Rental market of agricultural land: changing context and need for tenancy reform  -- BINOY GOSWAMI; title: chapter 4 Emerging factor markets in Indian agriculture: water and rental of capital goods  -- ANUP KUMAR DAS AND JITU TAMULI; title: chapter 5 Implications of credit-insurance interlinked contracts: an evaluation of crop insurance schemes in India  -- PRAVAT KUMAR KURI AND ARINDAM LAHA; title: chapter 6 Transition of agricultural marketing in India  -- RAJIB SUTRADHAR; title: chapter 7 Irrigation in India: the post-Green Revolution experience, challenges and strategies  -- MRINAL KANTI DUTTA; title: chapter 8 Technology adoption in Indian agriculture and its determinants: an inter-state analysis  -- BIBHUNANDINI DAS; title: chapter 9 Trade liberalization and Indian agriculture  -- SMITHA FRANCIS; title: chapter 10 Indian agriculture through the turn of the century: gathering stress and farmers' distress  -- M.P. BEZBARUAH AND MOFIDUL HASSAN; title: chapter 11 Shift of rural work force from farm to non-farm employment: some determinants  -- UPASAK DAS; title: chapter 12 Environmental consequences of the Green Revolution in India  -- SURYA BHUSHAN; title: chapter 13 Climate change and Indian agriculture: impacts on crop yield  -- RAJU MANDAL; title: chapter 14 The way forward -- M.P. BEZBARUAH.