Aagricultural development paradigm for the ninth plan under new economic environment / edited by Bhupat M. Desai

In mid-June 1996 a group of fifty economists, sociologists, agricultural scientists, planners, and senior managers met in a seminar to discuss and evolve a consensus on the subject of this study. Prior to this each one of these distinguished specialists contributed papers that were invited well ahead of the seminar. This book brings together the addresses, papers, proceedings and their synthesis by the editor under six major themes:

1. Contributions of agricultural develop ment to national goals

2. Agriculture in future: demand-supply analysis

3. Strategy and sources of agricultural growth

4. Technological factors for agricultural development

5. Institutional factors for agricultural development

6. Economic development factors for agricultural

The authors make both conceptual and empirical contributions, but their purpose throughout is to make agricultural planning and policy making more operational and better informed. The book recommends pragmatic paradigm shifts in each of the six major themes for managing agriculture now and beyond the Twentieth century.