Dis-Economies Of Agriculture?
AR Vasavi
DISTRESS IN THE FIELDS: INDIAN AGRICULTURE AFTER ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION by Edited by R. Ramakumar Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2022, 480 pp., INR 1500.00
December 2023, volume 47, No 12

Productivity. Input costs. Support Price. Policies.Investment.Risk. Capital. Market.Insurance.Credit. These have been and continue to be the key lexicons with which India’s agriculture and its economics are articulated and represented. This volume, a collection of essays from varied authors, also draws on these key terms while attempting to signal the ‘distress in the fields’ in a timeframe that is ‘after economic liberalization’.

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