Impact of WTO on Indian Cropping Pattern: Pre and Post WTO period - Softcover

M, Mahesha; Kumar, Vinod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3846542369 ISBN 13: 9783846542361

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

India is the seventh largest and second most populous country in the world. Agriculture sector has an important role in the economic development of India as a large size of its population lives in rural areas. It is a major source of livelihood for millions of people in India. Approximately 58.4 percent of the people depend on agriculture either directly or indirectly. Agriculture growth rate is at 1.6 percent total food grain production at232.07 million ton in 2010-11. Agriculture sector contributed 15.7 (in 2008-09) to India’s GDP and 10.59 India’s exports in 2009-10. Economic liberalization policies as well as the globalization process are also exerting strong pressures on the area allocation decision of farmers, essentially through their impact on the relative prices of inputs and outputs. Although the factors that influence the area allocation decision of farmers are all important, they obviously differ in terms of the relative importance both across farm groups and resource regions. While factor such as food and fodder self-sufficiency, farm size, and investment constraints are important in influencing the area allocation pattern.

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About the Author

Dr.Mahesha.M is currently working as a faculty in the DOS in economics, University of Mysore, India . He has 15 years of teaching experience and specialised in Quantitative Methods and econometrics.He has published 8 articles in journals, 7 papers in conference proceedings and published 3 books.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3846542369
• ISBN 13: 9783846542361
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188