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This book uses sound theoretical frameworks and econometric techniques to rigorously analyze and explain the conditions of sustainable growth in agriculture. It further investigates how management of natural resources and technological advances can enhance productivity and ensure sustainable growth...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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India Studies in Business and Economics,
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| Summary: |
This book uses sound theoretical frameworks and econometric techniques to rigorously analyze and explain the conditions of sustainable growth in agriculture. It further investigates how management of natural resources and technological advances can enhance productivity and ensure sustainable growth in agriculture. Optimal control theory, dynamic optimization problems and theory of risk and uncertainty are extensively used to create theoretical models for analyzing agricultural growth. The results demonstrate that crop diversification, rainwater harvesting and the use of organic fertilizers c |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 269 pages : charts ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789811008948 9811008949 9789811008955 9811008957 |
| Index Number: | HD1401 |
| CLC: | F335.13 |
| Call Number: | F335.13/S252 |
| Contents: | An Overview of the Indian Agriculture -- Technological Change and Productivity Growth in Agriculture -- Use of Water Resource and Sustainability of Growth in Agriculture -- Soil Health and Sustainable Growth in Agriculture -- Competing Uses of Land and Food Security -- Summary and Conclusions. |