Rural Development in Punjab
Subtitle: A Success Story Going Astary
Contributors: twentyeight
Edition: First
Series: Development Rconomics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ablimgton,Oxon,UK
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9780415456814
First sentence: Development is a multidimensional process of change.
Description: The volume encapsulates Punjab's development experience,considered  to be one of the most successful experiments in rural development.Thissuccess story,however,seems to be going astray due to lack of sufficient intent and will to effect agrarian transition.
Punjab's agrarian econmy is characterised by stagnating productivity,reducing farm size,falling household incomes,depleting underground water resources,degradation of soil,environmental hazards,mismangement of agricultural residues,poor econo and social infrastruture and civic amenties,lack of non-farm emp;oyment opportunities,and absence of innovative approaches to tap potential contributions from the diaspora to rural development.
The articles in this volume bring out clearly that rural development implies more than transformation of  traditional agriculture.Besides ensuring efficient use of limited natural resources to sustain agricultural production,rural policy should encompass promotion of non-farm activities and investment in social and economic infrastructure and civic amenities.However,the differential access of rural population adds to the complexity of rural development. The solution sought in decentralised,participative local development would be effective only if formal institutions constructed for the purpose do not conflict with slowly changing cultural embedded informal institutions.
The book will be of immense interest to those in the fields of agriculture, rural development,development economics,public policy and agricultural economics.
Notes: A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library
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