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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• DESAI, BHUPAT M
• D'SOUZA, ERROL
• MELLOR, JOHN W
• SHARMA, VIJAY PAUL
• TAMBOLI, PRABHAKAR

Titel

Agricultural Policy Strategy, Instruments and Implementation: A Review and the Road Ahead

Ist Teil von

• Economic and political weekly, 2011-12, Vol.46 (53), p.42-50

Ort / Verlag

Mumbai: Sameeksha Trust

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For 40 years, India's agricultural growth rate has averaged less than one-third of the government's modest target of 4%. The sector's performance has been about the same before and after the economic reforms in the early 1990s. The reforms that brought a dramatic acceleration of growth in urban sectors have essentially had no effect on agriculture. Slow agricultural growth has had ill-effects on food security, food price inflation and poverty reduction because of the inadequate level and composition of public expenditure. Agricultural education, research, extension and a wide range of ancillary public institutions have also suffered. Agricultural growth always demands massive public goods provision and that in turn requires a radical reorientation of central, state and district government activities. This paper advocates a new integrated, technology-led strategy to pull out of, what looks like, a vicious circle that agriculture is now caught in.