An Overview of the Indian Agriculture

Joydeb Sasmal ()
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Joydeb Sasmal: Vidyasagar University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Resources, Technology and Sustainability, 2016, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The introductory chapter of this book gives an overview of the Indian agriculture and describes how productivity in Indian agriculture has increased due to use of modern seeds, chemical inputs and extension of irrigation. It states that the growth in agricultural production has been achieved largely banking on ground water extraction. This has caused resource degradation in the country and it is now putting a threat to the sustainability of growth in the country. So, the conservation of natural resources has become very crucial for future growth. In the conservation of the resources, the recent developments of technology have significant role to play. In the scheme of the book, it has been mentioned that the issues like soil degradation, excess depletion of ground water, crop diversification, rain water harvest, major aspects of technological change and their impact on productivity and resource conservation, alternative uses of land and food security will be analysed in a very comprehensive and interrelated manner. The analysis will be based on sound theoretical frameworks and the theoretical prepositions will be empirically verified by econometric works based on Indian data.

Keywords: World Trade Organisation; Food Price; High Yielding Variety; Land Acquisition; Price Inflation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0895-5_1

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