India’s Agricultural Marketing

di Nilabja Ghosh (Autore)

Springer, 2016

The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the Indian government and governments of several other developing countries. Marketing reforms, it is claimed, can be a crucial answer to solving the problem of rural poverty in agrarian economies where large sections of populace are engaged in low paying agriculture. On a wider front, these reforms could help in providing growth impetus to an economy and even the global economy at large. Yet, the subject of liberalizing agricultural markets is also part of a broad and perhaps a bitter political debate between national and sub-national policy makers and academic discourses in India and other countries. A clearer understanding and a possible resolution of the issues involved will be decidedly useful. The experience of India, one of the largest and most agriculture-dominated economies, will undoubtedly provide valuable lessons not only for steering the domestic economic policy but also for other countries to set their own policy agenda. The book attempts to capture the evolving reality in a large and diverse country and presents an objective evaluation to enable aspiring investors and those in policy making, food business and civil society to make more informed assessment and decision. On the other hand, there are dark apprehensions of the same changes benefiting only exclusive, privileged farmers, leaving out the small and resource-poor ones; about possible exploitation of farmers encountering much more powerful buyers than the erstwhile traders; regarding agro-ecological degradation accelerated by short-term profit motives; and above all there are concerns surrounding the fate of the unorganized traders who are thought to be inefficient under the present milieu. The spectre of unemployment is also a serious potential obstacle. The dilemma presented by the channels can only be viewed in perspective if both welfare and efficiency aspects are assessed in terms of real-life experience. The book attempts to capture the evolving reality in a large and diverse country and to present an objective evaluation to enable aspiring investors and those active in policymaking, the food business and civil society to make more informed assessments and decisions.

• Autore: Nilabja Ghosh
• Anno edizione: 2016
• Editore: Springer
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9788132215721

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