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082			_a362.28088630954 _bBOD-F
100			_aBodh,P.C.
245			_aFarmer's suicides in India _b: a policy malignancy
260			_c2019 _aNew York _bRoutledge
300			_axiv,270p
504			_aInclude Bibliography and index
520			_aThis book locates the malignant causes behind the factors leading to farmers’ suicides in India. It argues that not only a combination of innovative managerial and economic policies is required to make farming profitable, but also food Production within the carrying capacity of the soil, water, forests and economic and social resources must still be maintained. It brings together diverse themes, such as farming development and suicide statistics, as well as the developmental inertia evident in farmers’ welfare policy history. The book stresses the need to go beyond the narrow crop economics of minimum support price utility and towards recognizing the farm household economic nature of farming, reinventing the uniqueness of farmers as a productive Class engaged in converting cosmic elements into food and adopting the budgetary support approach to bail out the farmers from the suicidal, debt-multiplying, production support approach. Lucid and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, political sociology, agricultural economics, political economy, public policy, sociology, agrarian and rural development studies, as also to policy analysts, governmental bodies and Civil society activists.
546			_aIndia 69 1210276 69 801722 69 921364 69 921369
650			_aAgriculture _vFarms, Small _vFarmers--Suicidal behaviour _vFarmers--Social conditions _zIndia
942			_2ddc _cBK