Desai, B.M. and D'souza, E. and et al, . (2011) Agricultural Policy Strategy, Instruments and Implementation: A Review and the Road Ahead. Economic and Political Weekly, 46 (53). pp. 42-50.
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC,University of Maryland |
| Subjects: | Plant Production |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr. SanatKumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2012 10:47 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Apr 2012 10:48 |
| Official URL: | http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/16943.pdf |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4653 |
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