Locating India's resource endowments in the context of its fast growing economy, the book assesses the growing demands on the country's agricultural sector. In doing so, it discusses the distinctive and rapidly diversifying food needs in rural and urban areas, the supply potential ofIndia's agricultural resources and the impact of technology. Modelling an alternative growth path, the book offers policy solutions to the challenges of inflation, poverty and food security. Written by one of India's foremost agricultural economists, the book offers incisive insights on die future of Indian agriculture.
Yoginder K. Alagh holds a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He is Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat and Professor Emeritus of the Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research. Alagh is a former Minister of State with the independent charge of the Ministry of Planning, Statistics and Programme Implementation, Power and Science and Technology. He was also a member of the Planning Commission and the Chairman of the Agricultural Prices Commission. Widely published, he is the author of over a hundred research papers and six books, including the overview volume of the series on State ofthe Indian Farmer: A Millennium Study.