The book entitled Livelihood, Income and Productivity in Fishery: The Synergy and Choice is a much needed publication of present time. The huge green revolution in India that stormed in the last quarter of seventies has now started withering out in a face of unbearable population pressure of 1.2 billion, eroding of natural resources, reverse transformation of agriculture and non-agriculture workers (53%) in rural area itself, narrowing down of land-man ratio, increasing job lessness, disparaging rural and urban gap, a bleak status of environmental pollution and so many. When the imbecility of economic policy aligning with the need and prospect of poorest of the poor is becoming more and more vivid, the question of livelihood and income generation is suppose to dominate over other issue so far as sustainable rural development is in place. The book rightly dealt with this three pronged aspects of sustainable rural development to the extension of fishery enterprises by increasing yield, securing livelihoods and increasing income in a concurrent manner.
Technology can not go alone. Its socialization is more complex, its not ephemeral, rather perpetual by triggering a production process through entrepreneurial participation of common rural people, constantly validating its economic compatibility and incessantly triangulating its social sustainability. The book is designed in such a manner so that a fishery scientist, an extension specialists, a management professional and any kind of scholars could drench his or her inquiries in a most systematic manner. The chapters of this book are so organically linked and sequence that any reader with rapt attention can go across the book to derive heuristic as well as academic values. The methods used are innovative, appropriate and generate unique style of observing as well as analyzing both process and phenomenon of any social system. The State Agricultural University, ICAR Institute, management institutes, professionals for rural development, scholars zoology, fishery, agricultural extension, fishery extension, home sciences, etc. can find this book of extreme application and mettle for topping up there acumen in relevant areas of studies and application.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.M. Adhikary
The editorial team consists of the three eminent members of the esteemed Institute, BCKV, Mohanpur, Nadia, and West Bengal. Firstly, the book is edited by the erudite personality of the erudite personality of the academic world of Social Science and related disciplines, Prof M.M. Adhikary who is presently offering his invaluable services as professor of Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agricultural Extension, faculty of Agriculture, BCKV. This distinct personality has been attached with the profession of teaching, research and extension for about twenty-five years. His immense potentiality of academic activities and capabilities to work with the people, sense of research and extension works helped him to serve as Dean, faculty of Agriculture and Director (in Charge), Directorate of Extension education in the same university as well as head of the Department of Agricultural Extension. To his credit there are 55 numbers of scientific research papers published in National and International Journals, a good score of chapters and full volume of books in related areas. He is widely traveled all through his carrier covering China, Japan, and Thiland, etc.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S. Biswas
S. Biswas obtained his B.Sc. (Agriculture) degree with distinction in 1990 and M.Sc. (Agriculture) degree in 1992 from Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat. He secured Ph.D. degree in Life Science (Botany) in 1998 from Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh. He has had a brilliant academic career right from the high school leaving examination. Biswas has more than 8 years of experience as an Assistant Professor-cum-Scientist in research extension and teaching. He worked on the genetics and breeding of rice, tea, greengram, blackgram and other pulse crops. He has to his credit 35 research papers published in national and international scientific journals and 55 popular scientific articles. He is also Fellow of the Indian Society of Genetics and plant breeding and a member of several professional societies. In the social work front, he has been creating awareness among common people about biodiversity conservation, intellectual property rights and importance of genetics and plant breeding to man. At present he is Lecturer in the Department of Biotechnology, Assam University, Silchar, Assam.
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