Summary and Conclusions

Joydeb Sasmal ()
Additional contact information
Joydeb Sasmal: Vidyasagar University

Chapter Chapter 7 in Resources, Technology and Sustainability, 2016, pp 249-262 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter has summarized the results and conclusions of theoretical analysis and econometric exercises on the issues of technological change, conservation of natural resources and sustainability of agricultural growth in this book. In the objective and scheme of this book, the importance of the above three issues have been discussed in an interrelated and comprehensive manner using sound analytical frameworks and econometric evidences. In fact, the problems of agricultural growth can not be analysed independent of resource management and technological progress. Agriculture in India, like in many other developing countries, has achieved remarkable growth in the last four decades by large scale adoption of high yielding variety seed, use of chemical inputs and expansion of irrigation. These factors have caused serious damage to natural resources like land and water. So, conservation of soil fertility, use of resource friendly inputs, efficient management of water resource have become very important. Major aspects of technological change, crop diversification, soil health, rain water harvest, externality problems in resource use, role of the government in resource management have been the main focus of this study. The sustainability of growth in agriculture has been viewed from a broader perspective encompassing geography, soil and agro-climatic conditions, rainfall, cropping pattern and overall environment. Both for productivity growth and conservation of resources, the role of technology, particularly the frontiers of biotechnology, irrigation technology, information technology has been highly emphasized. The results obtained in this study are very relevant to all other developing countries.

Keywords: Ground Water; Technological Change; Social Planner; High Yielding Variety; Indian Agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-10-0895-5_7

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789811008955

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0895-5_7

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in India Studies in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().