Farmers' Suicides in India: A Policy Malignancy - Hardcover

P C Bodh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367374900 ISBN 13: 9780367374907

Publisher: Routledge (India), 2019

Synopsis

This book locates the malignant causes behind the factors leading to farmers' suicides in India. It argues that a combination of innovative managerial and economic policies need to be initiated to make farming profitable, while maintaining food production within the carrying capacity of soil, water, forests, and economic and social resources. It brings together diverse themes such as farming statistics, developmental approach inertia in agriculture, national policy for farmers, the issue of welfare, crop viability, solutions beyond science and technology, and the budgetary plank approach to reveal the real causes of the agrarian crisis resulting in farmers' suicide in India.

Lucid and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, political sociology, agriculture economy, political economy, public policy, sociology, development studies, agrarian studies as also interest policy analysts, governmental bodies and civil society activists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge (India)
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367374900
• ISBN 13: 9780367374907
• Binding: Hardcover