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Modernisation of agriculture is a worldwide trend. Modernisation and technological inputs are highly interrelated. Among technological innovations, the mechanization is perhaps the most critical one. Unfortunately, the history of agricultural policy in many developing countries, including India, is replete with controversies when it come to mechanization. Mechanization was dubbed as anti-labour, anti-employment, anti-poor, and hence needs to be discouraged at any ...
Development of irrigation infrastructure has become critical factor in shaping the agriculture sector in Andhra Pradesh, where irrigation sector has been given an important place to address the on going crisis in agriculture sector. This volume examines the problems and prospects of irrigation sector in the state. It contains some of the best research studies on the irrigation development deals with the various aspects of irrigation policies. These essays give an ...
Ever since rural development emerged as an independent field of inenquiry in the 1950's it has been subjected to many changes in emphasis and ideology these changing perspectives have resulted in shifts in policies and programmes influencing the global discourse on rural development. The New Economic Policy (1991) initiated in its wake has spurred rethinking on the most appropriate approach to rural development. Conceived against this back ground, this volume ...