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Those who want to be our rulers have to provide food to all citizens at reasonably affordable prices as well as to ensure that those who produce food have reasonable dividends for their products and labour. If there is rural indebtedness, then a solution has to be found; if there is a surplus production, then the farmers must not be made to incur a loss; if there is a shortage of pulses, wheat, or rice, then the government must import, whatever the cost.
Different players, internal and external, with different and varying assets, potential, resources and capacities compete to hijack the governmental policies in their favour. This is the basic stuff of political economy. Politicians and policy-advocates are batting in a game over which they do not have total control. The consequences are uneven, sometime even cruel. Mohan Guruswamy and his two colleagues have competently tried to cut through a very difficult and vexatious subject, giving the trade-off involved in various choices. This study should stimulate an informed debate.
About Author :
Mohan Guruswamy was educated at Nizam College, Osmania University; John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; and Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He has a varied experience in academia, industry and government.
Uma Natarajan is an Economics graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, and is currently pursuing of Delhi, and is currently pursuing a post-graduate in Human Resource Management from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.
Shagun Khare is an Economics Graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, and is presently an Erasmus Mundus Scholar, pursuing a Masters degree in Quantitative Economics from Universite Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne, Universitat Bielefeld and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
Contents :
Contents
Foreword
Preface
1. Understanding the Problem
2. The National Backdrop
3. Agriculture`s Contribution to GDP and Employment
4. The Declining Investment in Agriculture
5. About Water, Seeds and Tractors
6. Declining Growth of Productivity and Production
7. The Fragmentation of Land
8. Subsidising instead of Investing
9. Rural Indebtedness and Agricultural Credit
10. The Sorry State of Rural Infrastructure
11. Playing to the Galleries with Pricing and Procurement
12. What can be done now? ISBN - 9788178711515
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Pages : 128
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