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"A modern discipline, Agricultural Economics generally applies the
principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock. The
discipline, known as Agronomics, is a branch of Economics, which
specifically deals with land usage. It focuses on maximising the yield of
crops, while maintaining a good soil-ecosystem. Throughout the 20th
century, the discipline got expanded and the current scope of the
discipline is much broader. Agricultural Economics now includes a variety
of applied areas, having considerable overlap, with conventional economics.
Economics is the study of resource allocation under scarcity. Agronomics or
the application of economic methods to optimising the decisions, made by
agricultural producers, grew to prominence, around the turn of 20th
century. The field of agricultural economics can be traced out to works on
land economics.
Present work is a research-based, compact and exclusive study for the
benefit of scholars, researchers and students of Economics and Agriculture
Science."
[from Blurb]
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Economic Development and Agriculture
3. Role of Agriculture in Economy
4. Modern Indian Agriculture
5. Indian Agricultural Policy
6. Marketing in Agriculture
7. Agricultural-Economic Transformation
8. Fixing Price in Agriculture
9. Agricultural Labour
10. Agricultural Development and Foreign Trade
11. Crops for Commercial Purposes
12. Farming in Cooperative Sector
Bibliography
Index
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