TY  - BOOK
AU  - Singh, Amarjit
TI  - Fundamentals of Agricultural Economics
SN  - 9789350512456
U1  - 338.1  23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Himalaya Publishing House
N1  - SECTION-I: GENERAL ISSUES

1. Nature and scope of agricultural economics;
2. Role of agriculture in economic development;
3. Farm organisation;
4. Types of farming;
5. Land in agriculture;
6. Labour in agriculture;
7. Capital in agriculture;
8. Land-reforms-Theoretical issues;
9. Risks and uncertainty in agriculture;
10. Supply response in agriculture;
11. Agricultural marketing;
12. Marketable surplus;
13. Environment and agricultural development;
14. Human resources development in agriculture;

SECTION-II: ISSUES CONCERNING AGRICULTURAL DEVELOMENT

15. Shult's thesis of transforming traditional agriculture;
16. Mellor's theory of agricultural development;
17. Boserup's theory of agricultural development;
18. Lews model of economic development;
19. FEI & Ranis model of agricultural development;
20. Tadaro's model of migration and unemployment;
21. Jorgenson's Neo-classical model of a dual economy;

SECTION-III: ISSUES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION , PRICE DETERMINATION, CONSUMPTION AND FARM MANAGEMENT;

22. Economics of agricultural production;
23. Production with one variable input( factor product relationship);
24. Production with two variable input (  factor-factor relationship);
25. Resource allocation and enterprise combination (product-product relationship);
26. Time and agricultural production processes;
27. Cost, revenue and profit maximisation;
28. Agricultural price determination;
29. Consumption economics;
30.  Farm management;

SECTION-IV: ISSUES IN INDIAN AGRICULTURE

31. Green revolution in India;
32. Farm mechanization;
33. Food security and agricultural development;
34. Land reforms in India;
35. Farm size and productivity;
36. Agricultural credit;
37. Foreign trade and agricultural development;
38. New economic policy and Indian agriculture;
39. WTO and Indian agriculture;
40. Nanotechnology and agriculture
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