Economics of Fisheries Technologies

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The book covers both marine and inland fish production technologies and their economic evaluation. It also provides the methods of costs estimation in fisheries and conceptual frame work of structural chage study. The far reaching effects of mechanisation of fishing carfts and modernization of production technologies coupled with trade liberalization policies of Government of India, have made the fishing communities vulnerable. Hence the authors had presented in this book the effects of mechanisation and modernization on productivity, profitability and employment aspects in fisheries sector, vis-a-ris the vulnerability of fishing activities. Though the study is basically from micro level data, the conclusions drawn and implications of results had macro level policy applications too. Hence the book will be of more useful and guiding for the policy makers, researchers, fisheries scientists and students of economics.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR V.T. Raju

Dr. V.T. Raju is the Professor of Agricultural Economics since December 1980 and actively involved in teaching different U.G. and P.G. courses in Agricultural Economics, guiding Post-Graduate students and conducting research on different aspects of Agricultural Economics. He worked as Assistant Professor in GVPAUT, Pantnagar, U.P., Project Executive at NDDB, Anand, Gujarat, Economist at ICRISAT, Hyderabad, A.P. and professor at GAU, Gujarat. At present he is working as Professors and University Head, Head of the Department, Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural College, Bapatla, ANGRAU, A.P. Dr. V.T. Raju was the first recipient of the â€œJawaharlal Nehru Awardâ€ for outstanding research in Agricultural Economics. He published three books, five chapters in edited books and four book reviews. He published 125 articles in Indian and Foreign Journals.