Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the pre-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 situation and public policy measures needed to revive the economy in the light of the recent initiatives by the state government, including a committee to suggest post-Covid-19 revival strategy. This collection of essays by specialized author/s in her/his/their area of research examines the impact of Covid-19 in the larger context of economic and developmental context of Punjab, ranging from basic developmental transformation analysis to the specific policy issues in each sector and policy domain, including the larger developmental crisis in the context of the regional economy and society of Punjab. The sectors analysed include: agriculture including dairy sector and agricultural markets, industry, services, education, health, besides fiscal, banking, diaspora, gender, governance, and sustainability challenges the state economy faces. It dwells on sector specific issues as well as ways forward for betterment of livelihoods of those engaged, especially farmers and industrial and service sector informal workers.
Bitter to Better Harvest
It focuses on the first-hand experience of farmers, policy-makers, and the State, who are confronted with unwanted situation in the northern part of the country, till date regarded as food bowl of the country. - Focuses agriculture in the post-green revolution period. - Presents an integrated and holistic view of the state of affairs in agriculture. - The concerns arising out of the impact of liberalisation in general, and WTO in particular, are adequately and exclusively treated. Stimulating reading for those who are interested in the dynamics of Indian agriculture. The volume can also serve as an excellent textbook for post-graduate students in economics, development studies, regional development, agriculture, as well as agro-marketing. Those researching Indian agriculture can find the book extremely relevant. Similarly, the policy makers, planners, and administrators, particularly in the government, will also appreciate its usefulness in policy and programme inputs.
The Punjab Under Imperialism, 1885-1947
The Punjab--an area now divided between Pakistan and India--experienced significant economic growth under British rule from the second half of the nineteenth century. This expansion was founded on the construction of an extensive network of canals in the western parts of the province. The ensuing agricultural settlement transformed the previously barren area into one of the most important regions of commercial agriculture in South Asia. Nevertheless, Imran Ali argues that colonial strategy distorted the development of what came to be called the "bread basket" of the Indian subcontinent. This comprehensive survey of British rule in the Punjab demonstrates that colonial policy making led to ma...
Rural Development in Punjab
For many years, agricultural development in Punjab symbolised one of the most successful experiments in rural development. However, this success story seems to be going astray. The crux of the problem, this volume suggests, is that externally driven modernization to meet national food needs pushed Punjab into highly specialized production of wheat and rice, resulting in over-utilisation of natural resources with adverse environmental consequences that jeopardizing the long-term viability and sustainability of the agrarian economy. Stagnating productivity, reduced farm size, falling household incomes, depleting groundwater resources, are only a few of the problems that characterise Punjab’s agriculture today. The book establishes clearly that rural development implies more than transformation of traditional agriculture. Apart from ensuring efficient use of limited resources to sustain agricultural production, rural policy should encompass promotion of non-farm activities, investments in social and economic structure and civic amenities.
Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning
This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common in agricultural practices in many parts of the world. In particular, it focuses on the pollution caused by rice residue burning using primary survey data from Punjab, India. It discusses emerging solutions to agricultural waste burning that are cost-effective in terms of both money and time. The burning of agricultural residue causes severe pollution in land, water and air and contributes to increased ozone levels and climate change in the long term. However, appropriate assessments have not been undertaken so far to demonstrate the relevant impact of agriculture-bas...
A River Sutra
An elderly bureaucrat escapes the world to run a guest house on the banks of India's holiest river, the Narmada, only to find he has made the wrong choice. Too many lives converge here. Among those who disturb his tranquility are a privileged young executive bewitched by a mysterious lover; a novice Jain monk who has abandoned opulence for poverty; a heartbroken woman with a golden voice; an ascetic and the child he has saved from prostitution. Through their stories A River Sutra explores the fragile longings of the human heart and the sacred power of the river.
Plant Mutagenesis and Crop Improvement
Crop improvement using classically induced mutagenesis is now well standardized. Many new promising varieties of different crops have been successfully developed worldwide using both physical and chemical mutagens. Voluminous literature is now available on basic and applied aspects of mutagenesis. The mutation technique has been refined and holds the promise of generating much wider and more desirable variability than classical breeding. Recent advances in technology combined with classical mutation breeding offer new and exciting challenges for the development of new varieties. A global inventory of induced mutagenesis activities for crop improvement is requried. This book covers both basic...
Achieving Sustainable Crop Nutrition
This collection reviews current research on understanding nutrient cycles, the ways crops process nutrients, the environmental effects of fertilizer use and how this understanding can be used to improve nutrient use efficiency for a more resource-efficient and climate-smart agriculture. Parts 1-3 summarise research on the primary macronutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Chapter review what we know about nutrient cycles, crop nutrient processing, potential environmental effects and ways of optimising nutrient use efficiency (NUE). The fourth section of the book discusses secondary macronutrients and micronutrients including: calcium, magnesium, sulphur, zinc, boron, manganese and m...
Farm Bulletin
None
Agricultural Marketing
The Book has been prepared to make a comprehensive knowledge on Agricultural Marketing'. It provides recent feed back to the readers. It is a compendium of the distinguished personalities, researchers, agricul-turists, scientists and academicians. The book depicts some important aspects: E-Agriculture: A new approach Agricultural marketing in India Indian Agricultural Market Reforms Alternative Agricultural Marketing System Changing Scenario in Agricultural Marketing. Agricultural Marketing: Thrust and Challenges Agricultural Marketing: Problems and Prospects Changing Profile of Farm product Marketing Food and Agricultural Marketing in India WTO and Indian Agriculture Agricultural products export in India Regulated Agricultural Market Impact of Liberalisation on Agricultural Trade Role of ICT in Sugarcane Marketing Development Export Potential of Agricultural Products Recent efforts towards agriculture marketing system Boosting Agricultural Marketing Indian Floriculture Marketing Indian Lac Marketing Scenario.
