Agriculture and Rural Transformation : Issues and Challenges

Contents: 1. Change in Cropping Pattern and Its Factors: A Study of Undivided Andhra Pradesh/Ch. Shankar Rao. 2. Agricultural Situation and Rural Livelihood Potentials in Nagaland/B. Kilangla Jamir. 3. Producers Organization, Market Integration, and Value Addition of Agricultural Produces for Transformation of Rural Farm Economy in Punjab/Udeshna Talukdar. 4. Economics of Floriculture in Nagaland: Some Empirical Evidences/Khriemenuo Pusa and Giribabu M. 5. Production and Marketing of Agricultural Commodities in Nagaland: An Exploratory Study/E. Thangasamy, C. Periasamy and Moakala Jamir. 6. Transition of Indian Rural Market/Kabir and Pratibha Rai. 7. Agricultural Credit in India: Some Crop-Based Field Evidences in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu/Giribabu M. 8. Productivity Trends of Principal Crops in India in Different Time Phases/V. Subramanyam and M. Devarajulu. 9. Growth in Area, Production, and Productivity of Jhum Paddy in Mokokchung and Zunheboto Districts of Nagaland/Moangtoshi. 10. The Role of Women in Agriculture and Rural Development in India/K. Sudhakar Reddy. 11. Marketing of Oranges: A Case Study in Mokokchung District of Nagaland/Sashimatsung and Giribabu M. 12. Second Green Revolution: Withering Farmer for Corporate Technology/R.M. Kumar Raju and A. Ranga Reddy. 13. Proximate Determinants of Access to Formal Credit: Ground Reality in Andhra Pradesh / Vachya Naik and Sri Hari Nayudu Ayyala. 14. Impact of Agriculture on Rural Livelihood Sustainability in Nagaland/Bolivi S. Kiba and B. Kilangla Jamir. 15. Agriculture Development Problems in India: Regional Experiences and Policies/Subramanyam, Yuvaraju and Devarajulu. 16. Rural Employment Generation Programme: A Case Study of MGNREGP in Andhra Pradesh/A. Sudharsana Reddy and A. Padmavathi. 17. Small Tea Cultivation in Nagaland, its Prospect and Challenges of the Growers: A Descriptive Study / Debojit Konwar and Mithilesh Kumar Sinha. 18. Migration: A Livelihood Strategy in Rural Area of Nagaland/Hulin and B. Kilangla Jamir. 19. Institutional Agricultural Credit in Nagaland: Some Empirical Evidences/Thejotalu Nienu and Giribabu M. 20. Rural Women in Formal and Informal Activities in Nagaland/Imcharenla and B. Kilangla Jamir. 21. Patterns of Agriculture: A Study on Land-Use and Cropping Patterns of Jorhat District, Assam/Sabita Nath and Sangyu Yaden. 22. Role of Non-Farm Sector in Income Generation and Removal of Poverty in India: An Analysis in Centre of Nagaland (NER)/Manoj Kr. Singh. 23. MGNREGA and Poverty Eradication in Rural Assam: A Case Study/Anil Kumar Saikia. 24. Infrastructure Development in Rural Nagaland: Some Contemporary Issues/Chubakumzuk Jamir and T. Zarenthung Ezung. Agriculture and Rural Transformation covers various issues related to agricultural and rural development. The term rural transformation has multi-dimensional connotations and it has been interpreted from different aspects. From the economic perspective, issues were by and large, equated with development approach. Knowledge development and innovation in the rural sector are taken up seriously for increasing production or productivity and returns, as well as, for generating employment in rural areas. Achieving 8 9 per cent rate of growth in overall GDP may not deliver much in terms of poverty reduction unless agricultural growth accelerates. Furthermore, growth with inclusiveness can be achieved only when agricultural growth hastens and is also widely shared amongst people and regions of the country. In recent years, government initiated many policy reforms and incentives for farmers to meet market demands, farmer-oriented agricultural research, progressive widening of regional and national markets, diversification of rural economy and promoting rural industrialisation, thereby, strengthening the rural infrastructure for changing the various facets of rural transformation in India. Thus, understanding the role of agriculture for rural transformation is important, which in turn.