This book examines how crop diversification strategies can help to ensure sustainable agricultural development across different land-size categories, with a focus on Malda District in West Bengal, India. Using Malda as the study area, a region with nearly 4 million people, the book assesses the extent, pattern, factors and future of crop diversification and its contribution to the development of agriculture in Malda and in India as a whole. The work presents data from 1995-2015 concerning changing cropping patterns at various land-size distributions, and analyzes the information over the twenty year period to understand the link between crop diversification and agricultural development, in order to combat major agricultural issues and make suitable policy recommendations at micro (rural) and macro (urban) levels of agricultural planning. The study is a unique contribution to the field of agricultural geography, and will be of use to students and researchers, as well as government organizations, city/community planners and agriculture managers.

This book examines how crop diversification strategies can help to ensure sustainable agricultural development across different land-size categories, with a focus on Malda District in West Bengal, India. Using Malda as the study area, a region with nearly 4 million people, the book assesses the extent, pattern, factors and future of crop diversification and its contribution to the development of agriculture in Malda and in India as a whole. The work presents data from 1995-2015 concerning changing cropping patterns at various land-size distributions, and analyzes the information over the twenty year period to understand the link between crop diversification and agricultural development, in order to combat major agricultural issues and make suitable policy recommendations at micro (rural) and macro (urban) levels of agricultural planning. The study is a unique contribution to the field of agricultural geography, and will be of use to students and researchers, as well as government organizations, city/community planners and agriculture managers.

The participation in the governmental process is ensured by the election. Election can be properly viewed by particular institutional mechanism. As an institutional mechanism, the Bangladesh Constitution gives a provision to set up an Election Commission as an Electoral Management Body to conduct elections in the country. In accordance with the Article 118 of the Constitution, Bangladesh Election Commission was established. The body operates the legal functions according to election law. For the success of BEC, it is essential that the election must be held in a free and fair manner. Since inception of Bangladesh in 1972, there has been an allegation against BEC, that it is having some irregularities in the way of holding election. Therefore, the electoral process thus remained as fictive as futile. The functioning of an EC can be properly viewed through some of its guiding principles. Without ensuring such principles BEC also remains as fictive as futile. In this backdrop, this research evaluates the performances of the BEC to conduct a free and fair election. I hope that in my work, researchers, academicians and students will find the path of holding free and fair election.