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Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution - Changes and Challenges (Hardcover)
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Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution - Changes and Challenges (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
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From a country plagued with chronic food shortage, the Green
Revolution turned India into a food-grain self-sufficient nation
within the decade of 1968-1978. By contrast, the decade of
1995-2005 witnessed a spate in suicides among farmers in many parts
of the country. These tragic incidents were symptomatic of the
severe stress and strain that the agriculture sector had meanwhile
accumulated. The book recounts how the high achievements of the
Green Revolution had overgrown to a state of this 'agrarian
crisis'. In the process, it also brings to fore the underlying
resilience and innovativeness in the sector which enabled it not
just to survive through the crisis but to evolve and revive out of
it. The need of the hour is to create an environment that will
enable the sector to acquire the robustness to contend with the
challenges of lifting levels of farm income and coping with Climate
Change. To this end, a multi-pronged intervention strategy has been
suggested. Reviving public investment in irrigation, tuning
agrarian institutions to the changed context, strengthening of
market institution for better farm-market linkage and financial
access of farmers, and preparing the ground for ushering in
technological innovations should form the major components of this
policy paradigm.
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