Agricultural Development and Environmental Issues in India

By : M. H. Qureshi

Page No: 163-173

Abstract
Indian rural people have practised agriculture for centuries and developed their traditional knowledge and capacities in different regions to produce grains and sustain. They selected their cropping pattern on the basis of their traditional observation of weather conditions. Sayings of Ghagh Kavi are very popular in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Technology induced development of agriculture is a recent phenomena. We talk about social as well as economic development. Economic development is not class neutral creates disparity as the technological inputs are not available to all alike. Some get benefitted more than some other segments of the society. There is no zero level environmental degradation once the process of development is initiated in an area in response to development policy. The paper deals with the elaboration of the concept of development taking example from some sectors of the economy such as the scenario in agricultural development in India.

Author : 
M.H. Qureshi : Formerly Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, J.N.U. New Delhi-110067.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2019.39.02.1