Agriculture Production and Marketing

Agriculture Continues to be the key industry. It is not only the dominant form of employment but also forms the basis for a way of life for, perhaps, two*thirds of the world's households. Agriculture being the function of physical, socio-institutional and techno-economic factors which are dynamic in nature, keeps on changing with the basic objective of increasing production and generation of foodgrains surplus. The traditional system of farming is in the process of transformation to modem agriculture which itself is undergoing a set of equally and generally even in more rapid changes. So it has added new dimensions in agriculture which need to be studied and analysed. This collection of essays in the eight volumes of New Dimensions in Agricultural Geography is designed to encapule the major themes and recent trends and concepts on the field in the light of conceptual revolution in the discipline. More than 150 renowned scholars of various discipline from all over the world have contributed original papers on different themes which make this work multi-disciplinary. These volumes have been designed to help not only research scholars in particular area but also others who wish to keep abreast of the latest development in the field of agricultural geography.