"Almost all the papers included here were first presented at a National Seminar on 'Indian Agriculture: Policy Shifts and Emerging Challenges', held on 20-21 June 2019 at TISS, Mumbai ... NABARD financed the organization of the seminar"--Page xxiii.

Includes bibliographical references.

In 2021, India completed three decades of implementation of economic liberalization policies. This volume is a composite and critical account of Indian agriculture during liberalization. Agriculture was one of the most contentious arenas of policy making in this period, marked by occasional spurts of growth coexisting with acute agrarian distress. From the standpoint of political economy, this volume discusses and analyses a range of themes in Indian agriculture including land ownership, tenancy, public investment and expenditure, prices, international trade, crop incomes and profitability, input subsidies, credit, insurance, marketing and food distribution. A key feature of the volume is its simultaneous focus on both a broader macroeconomic outlook and extensive evidence collected through intensive village surveys.