The collected article looks at the growth and productivity challenges in agriculture and suggests policies that will help raise farm productivity and incomes.
This book will be of considerable interest to economists, social scientists, policy makers and scholars.

Seeds of Suicide is a study of the impact of trade liberalisation on Indian agriculture and Indian farmers. It is an account of the social and ecological costs of globalization.

Agriculture in Developing Countries highlights that in order to minimize the negative impact of farmers’ own yield gaps (the difference between farmers’ own potential and actual yields) on their income levels, it is important that new approaches to agricultural technological development be employed in the form of more opportunities rather than a single crop production technology.

The volume discusses the agro-climatic context, irrigation and agricultural technology, legal-institutional arrangements, and the economic environment. This book discusses investments in groundwater development, extension of irrigation facilities, and major disparities between rain-fed and irrigated areas in detail.

The book sheds light on the role and importance of distribution and commodity markets in shaping and spreading the benefits of higher productivity across society. The book discusses a regulatory policy that could be adopted by any government, irrespective of its ideology.

Reforming Indian Agriculture:Towards Employment Generation and Poverty Reduction focuses on the issues of employment, poverty, food and nutrition, and reviews other aspects of development policy like fostering inter-state cooperation for optimum utilization of resources, Privatization policy to mobilize funds for social sector development and pattern of adoption of improved technologies by small scale industries in the country.