P. C. Bodh

Gebundenes Buch

Farmers' Suicides in India

A Policy Malignancy

Beschreibung

This book locates the malignant causes behind the factors leading to farmers' suicides in India. It argues that a combination of innovative managerial and economic policies need to be initiated to make farming profitable, while maintaining food production within the carrying capacity of soil, water, forests, and economic and social resources.

Autor

P. C. Bodh is an Indian Economic Service officer of the 1987 batch and is currently senior adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers' Welfare, government of India. He was formerly director of the Planning Commission. With thirty years of experience in six ministries of the government of India, he has significantly contributed to policy making, research management and monitoring and has initiated the India Agricultural Outlook Forum. He has several academic and literary books to his credit and has been editing and managing the Ministry's flagship publication - the monthly journal Agricultural Situation in India - and reports such as Agricultural Statistics at a Glance, State of Indian Agriculture and Glimpses of Indian Agriculture (2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781138347373
• ISBN-10: 113834737X
• Artikelnr.: 56533941