Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution: Changes and Challenges (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367374838 ISBN 13: 9780367374839

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Binoy Goswami is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Economics, South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

Madhurjya Prasad Bezbaruah is Professor in the Department of Economics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India.

Raju Mandal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Assam University, Silchar, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367374838
• ISBN 13: 9780367374839
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Goswami Binoy, Bezbaruah Madhurjya Prasad, Mandal Raju