Title:	Resources, Technology and Sustainability
Authors:	Joydeb Sasma Sagarika Ghosh
Keywords:	Sustainability
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	The book titled Resources, Technology and Sustainability—An Analytical Perspective on Indian Agriculture is the reflection of my research on agricultural economics for the last thirty years. Although I have research interest in diverse fields of economics, namely, economic growth, public economics, child labour, the major focus of my works has remained on natural resources, agriculture and sustainable growth. In the days of my student life in college and university in 1970s and 1980s, the low productivity, low capital investment and technological backwardness in agriculture were the subjects of major concern for farmers, agricultural sector and for the economy as a whole and this attracted me to be engaged in research on this field. The existing literature suggested that the productivity in traditional agriculture could not be increased without a technological breakthrough. At the beginning, I started my works with the objective of suggesting policies towards increasing productivity in agriculture. The frontline research in this field at that time published in renowned International Journals prompted me to undertake doctoral research on ‘Adoption of Modern Technology in Agriculture’. I started my work in late 1980s in the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta, under the supervision of my respected teacher, Prof. Asis Kumar Banerjee. Professor Banerjee, one of the finest teacher in economics, with commendable grip over economic theory and quantitative economics, advised me to keep in mind that a good research must be based on sound theoretical framework and I was trained and guided accordingly. Many works were going on in the same line in the Indian context but hardly any of them had any theoretical backup.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/58315
ISBN:	978-981-10-0895-5
Appears in Collections:	Rural Development Studies

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