AGRARIAN CRISIS & FARMER SUICI

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-81-321-0512-1
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 637 g

Reihe: Land Reforms in India series

This volume is the twelfth in the series 'Land Reforms in India'. It focuses on the multi-dimensional aspects of the agrarian problem, examining it from the angle of public policy. A distinguishing feature of this collection is its holistic approach towards viewing farm sector distress, instead of looking for isolated causes and solutions.

The essays, based on the research and analyses conducted by academics from different parts of the country, examine the reasons for the growing agrarian crisis and increasing incidences of farmers' suicides in specific regions of the country. They take into account regional discrepancies in agricultural growth and implementation of policies in specific areas. In doing that, they also bring to light the various types of farm sector distress, which, in turn, leads to a better understanding of the whole situation. The compilation also attempts to define a systematic policy line.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deshpande, R S

Arora, Saroj

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzkrisen, Wirtschaftskrisen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzkrisen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Padamvir Singh
A Note from the Co-ordinator - Ashish Vachhani
Editors' Introduction - R S Deshpande and Saroj Arora
Economic Reforms, Small Farmer Economy and Agrarian Crisis - D Narasimha Reddy and Srijit Mishra
Contextualizing the Agrarian Suicides - A R Vasavi
Poor Indian Farmers' Plight and Liberalisation: An overview - A K Singhal
Path of Development and Politics in Karnataka - Muzaffar Assadi
Globalisation, Agrarian Crisis and Farmers' Suicides: Illusion and reality - R S Deshpande
Globalisation vis-a-vis Agrarian Crisis in India - M S Sidhu
Cotton Growers: Experience from Vidarbha - Neelima Deshmukh
Economic Reforms and Regional Disparities - E Revathi and Shaik Galab
The Drought Prone Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh - G Sreedhar
Distress and Deceased in Andhra Pradesh: An analysis of causes of farmers' suicide - T Prabhakar Reddy
Indebtedness and Farmers' Suicides - K Gopal Iyer and Saroj Arora
Punjab Peasantry: A Question of Life and Debt - Anita Gill
Agrarian Crisis in Punjab and Policy Options - G S Kalkat
Credit through Participatory Management: The way for rural smile - Ravikesh Srivastava
Way Out: Short-Term and Long-Term Measures for Sustainable Agriculture - Srinivasan Santhanam
Farmers Suicide: Behavioural and Social Dimensions - Gyanmudra
Providing A Level Playing Field For The Small Farmer - Meeta Rajivlochan and M Rajivlochan
Way Forward - R S Deshpande and Saroj Arora
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Arora, Saroj
Saroj Arora is a senior research officer in the Centre for Rural Studies, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. Her areas of interest are land reforms, land administration, peasant movement, agrarian reforms, gender and land, resettlement and rehabilitation of project affected families. She has done extensive research on gender, land, resettlement and rehabilitation issues.

Deshpande, R S
R S Deshpande is presently Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, Karnataka. Professor Deshpande was a member of the Committee on Farmers’ Suicides in Karnataka, drafted the WTO Cell Report and Agricultural Policy-2006 of the Government of Karnataka. He was also the convener for preparing the manual for District Planning Team of the Planning Commission. He is member of an Expert Group on WTO and Agriculture of the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. Among his important books are: Crops and Cultivation; NGOs and Farmers’ Movements; Moon in the Mirror; Farmer and the Minimum Support Prices in Karnataka; Rural Policy for Growth and Poverty Reduction, Glimpses of Indian Agriculture: Micro and Macro Aspects Vol. I and II and Where Water Seeps; Contract Farming and Tenancy Reforms. He was one of the three coordinators of the mega study on Farmers at the Millennium sponsored by Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. His areas of specialisation include Agricultural Economics, Economic Policy, Land Issues, Development Economics and Applied Econometrics.