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Changing Contours of Indian Agriculture: Investment, Income and Non-farm Employment

Editat de Seema Bathla, Amaresh Dubey
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 noi 2017
This book presents an extensive study on India’s agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes. It offers appropriate financial, institutional, and policy frameworks that can help to sustain agricultural growth and augment farmers’ incomes across geographical locations. Further, it addresses agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction through multiple pathways that also tackle varied geographical locations, making it a highly useful guide to understanding the changing contours in agriculture and rural areas across the country and among rural households with various social and economic backgrounds.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789811060137
ISBN-10: 9811060134
Pagini: 242
Ilustrații: VII, 242 p. 24 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

Introduction.- Public capital formation and agricultural growth: An analysis of the relationship across the Indian states.- The impact of institutional credit on agricultural growth in India: evidence from a nationally representative farmers’ survey.- Investment behaviour of farmers across Indian states: Determinants and impact on agriculture income.- Responsiveness of Indian agriculture to incentives.- Temporal pattern in rice production and its sources of total factor productivity growth in India.- Changes in the production structure and class composition in agriculture: evidence from Punjab.- Regional variations in agriculture income in India: possibility of convergence.- Income mobility and poverty dynamics across social groups in India, 1993-2005.- Is occupational transformation pro-poor? An analysis of Indian rural labour market in reform period.- Factors affecting agriculture labour market and cropping pattern in Uttar Pradesh.- Implementation of MNREGA and changes in work patterns of rural women in India.- Trends, composition and determinants of rural non-farm employment and implications for income distribution in Assam.

Notă biografică

Seema Bathla is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Before joining the JNU, she worked at the Institute of Economic Growth, The Energy Research Institute and Delhi University. She obtained her M.Phil. from the Delhi School of Economics and Ph.D. from the JNU. She has 25 years of work experience and published three books (two co-authored) and more than 40 research articles in refereed national and international journals and opinion pieces in national newspapers. Having keen interest in agricultural issues, she has carried out several research studies and undertaken assignments for the World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), NCAER and WWF-India. She received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Outstanding Post-Graduate Agricultural Research from the Indian Council of Agriculture Research, New Delhi in 2008. She is also the recipient of the Dr. R.T. Doshi award for the best paper published in the Agricultural Economics Research Review in 2014 and 2015.

Amaresh Dubey is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has over 28 years of teaching and research experience. Before joining the JNU in 2008, he taught economics at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong and was a senior fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. His publications include four co-authored and co-edited books, over 60 articles and papers in international and national refereed journals and edited volumes, 34 research project reports and commissioned policy papers, as well as numerous opinion pieces in national newspapers. He has visited several universities and institutes in India and abroad to deliver lectures and seminars, in addition to over a hundred invited presentations at international and national seminars and conferences over the last few years. He has been a member of different academic and executive bodies at the JNU and other universities and institutes, and a member of several central and state government committees and other statutory bodies.
 

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This book presents an extensive study on India’s agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes. It offers appropriate financial, institutional, and policy frameworks that can help to sustain agricultural growth and augment farmers’ incomes across geographical locations. Further, it addresses agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction through multiple pathways that also tackle varied geographical locations, making it a highly useful guide to understanding the changing contours in agriculture and rural areas across the country and among rural households with various social and economic backgrounds.

Caracteristici

Presents concise analyses of factors driving farmers’ incomes, agricultural growth, and nonfarm employment Evaluates the impact of agricultural growth and nonfarm employment on labor market dynamics and poverty alleviation based on the National Sample Survey (NSS) and primary household surveys Focuses on regional/state-level analysis and targeted technological and policy interventions that could help raise the incomes of all landholders and social groups Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras