Overview
- 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
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Changing Contours of Indian Agriculture
Book Subtitle: Investment, Income and Non-farm Employment
Editors: Seema Bathla, Amaresh Dubey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6014-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6013-7Published: 06 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5548-6Published: 11 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6014-4Published: 25 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 242
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Development Finance, Development Aid