Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution
- 234 pages
- English
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Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Indian agriculture after the Green Revolution: an overview
- 3 Rental market of agricultural land: changing context and need for tenancy reform
- 4 Emerging factor markets in Indian agriculture: water and rental of capital goods
- 5 Implications of credit-insurance interlinked contracts: an evaluation of crop insurance schemes in India
- 6 Transition of agricultural marketing in India
- 7 Irrigation in India: the post-Green Revolution experience, challenges and strategies
- 8 Technology adoption in Indian agriculture and its determinants: an inter-state analysis
- 9 Trade liberalization and Indian agriculture
- 10 Indian agriculture through the turn of the century: gathering stress and farmers’ distress
- 11 Shift of rural work force from farm to non-farm employment: some determinants
- 12 Environmental consequences of the Green Revolution in India
- 13 Climate change and Indian agriculture: impacts on crop yield
- 14 The way forward
- Index