Agriculture is a prominent sector is most developing counties. The economic development of developing countries is largely dependent on agriculture. The historical experience of many countries revels that agriculture played a vital role in the process of economic development. The development of agriculture contributes much to the development of a notion in many ways such as it meets the problem of growing demand for food, earns foreign exchange, provides labour force to manufacturing sector and stimulates capital formation and industrial expansion. But, the most important way by which agriculture can contribute to overall economic development is through increased agricultural production and productivity. In addition, agriculture has to provide employment for growing labour-force in rural areas. Therefore, the pace of economic transformation has an important bearing on the role and strategy of agricultural development in developing economies. Here an attempt is made to study the agricultural economy of Andhra Pradesh.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M. Lakshmi Narasaiah
Dr. M. Lakshmi Narasaiah, has been working as Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Sri Krishnadevaraya University Post-Graduate Centre, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. He is a Post-Graduate in Economics and has secured first rank. He has received Ph.D., Degree from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, in 1987. He has worked as UGC JRF and UGC SRF. Starting his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Economics in Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, he has been actively engaged in teaching and research for the past twenty years. He was associated with the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Planning Department in the center for planning and Development studies projects. He has extensively travelled abroad. He has to his credit 175 research papers published in reputed National and International Journals, a large number of book reviews and seminar papers besides supervising M.Phil., and Ph.D., studies. He is also working on number of research projects. He has frequently participated in national and international conference. He is author of 27 books. Prof. M. Lakshmi Narasaiah is a member of large number of national and international associations and is associated with academic in several universities and professional organization. He has been acting as a member of the "Review Committee" he various international economic journals.
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