Handbook of Agriculture

Indian agriculture has seen some important developments in the last sixty years including the disappearance of famines, emergence of food surplus, and the green revolution. Despite this, poverty and malnutrition continue to afflict large sections of the population. There is also declining productivity in many regions of India. This timely handbook reviews key issues such as: • economic policies and agriculture • distribution of benefits of green revolution • food security • agricultural subsidies • rural-urban linkages and changing agrarian system • migration and crisis management Contributors Amitabh Kundu • Dipankar Gupta • Raj K. Gupta • Manoj Panda • Shovan Ray • P.V. Srinivasan • Vijay Laxmi Pandey • Sowjanya Peddi • Sudhakar Yedla