Rural Development Management

Contents: Preface. I. Dunkel and agriculture sector: 1. Dunkel draft and its impact on Indian agriculture: emerging issues/Awadhesh Kumar Singh. 2. GATT and its implications for agricultural sector/G.T. Govindappa. 3. Dunkel proposals and Indian agriculture: strategic issues/S.S. Chahal and Karam Pal. II. Liberalisation and agriculture exports: 6. Liberalisation of Indian economy : implications for India\'s agriculture and industrial exports/Narinder Kaur. III. Farm management: 5. Strategies for agricultural products exports in the changing economic scenario/Maneet Kumar and Jitender Kumar Bhanwal. 6. Farm sector management: emerging trends/R.P. Yadav. IV. Managing agro-industries: 7. Strategic management of agro-based industries/Bhupinder Pal Singh. 8. New paradigms in rural industrialisation (A case study of PAIC)/B.S. Bhatia and G.S. Batra. V. Contemporary issues: 9. Income, employment and indebtedness: impact on tenancy in a land scarce economy/Debnarayan Sarker. 10. Perspectives of integrated rural development: contemporary issues/L.N. Gupta. 11. Review of a research study scheme lending operations of State Bank of India: a study on user effectiveness in rural areas/K.N. Ramanujam. 12. An analytical study of tapioca cultivation in Tamil Nadu/Girija Veeramani and R. Veeramani. 13. Challenges of agricultural development in India/Narinder Kaur. 14. Problems of rural marketing in India--an overview/A. Vijayakumar. VI. New paradigms: 15. Action research programme and its socio-economic impact: a brief reflection/B.C. Barik. 16. Finances of Panchayati Raj institutions--a study/S. Govardhan Naidu and A. Reddappa Reddy. 17. Rural commercial entrepreneurship--a study/K. Sayulu. 18. Role of agriculture sector in Indian economy: shaping for turbulent times/C. Ramasamy and C. Sekar. Index.

"Policy of globalisation, liberalisation and privatisation in select areas are the new paradigms in a developing economy. This process has affected the different reforms of Indian economy. Growth and increased competitiveness of the corporate sector, technology upgradation and emerging consumer markets are the result of the process of opening up the economy. Keeping in view the vast size of rural market in India economic reforms have vast implication for the rural sector. Rural industrialisation and development of agriculture has also become important to ensure all-round development of rural economy.

This book Rural Development Management is an attempt to understand the problem areas in the development of rural sector and to suggest certain strategies in this regard.

It is hoped that this book will be of great help to the policy planners, researchers and all those concerned with the development of rural sector." (jacket)