Indian Agriculture: Role and Challenges

Agricultural economics originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock – a discipline known as agronomics. Agronomics was a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. Today, the field of agricultural economics has transformed into a more integrative discipline which covers farm management and production economics, rural finance and institutions, agricultural marketing and prices, agricultural policy and development, food and nutrition economics, and environmental and natural resource economics. In this book, the editor has compiled various scholarly papers on the different aspects of Indian agricultural economics. This book discusses important issues and concerns in Indian agricultural economics. The role of agriculture, trends in production, sustainable agriculture, employment participation in agriculture, etc., are few of them. The editor hopes this book is useful for those who interested in economics in general and students of B.A., M.A., Ph.D. scholars in particular. The editor expresses his gratitude to the authors of all these great works.