Diversified Cropping Pattern and Agricultural Development: A Case Study from Malda District, India

✍ Scribed by Hasibur Rahaman

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines how crop diversification strategies can help to ensure sustainable agricultural development across different land-size categories, with a focus on Malda District in West Bengal, India. Using Malda as the study area, a region with nearly 4 million people, the book assesses the extent, pattern, factors and future of crop diversification and its contribution to the development of agriculture in Malda and in India as a whole. The work presents data from 1995-2015 concerning changing cropping patterns at various land-size distributions, and analyzes the information over the twenty year period to understand the link between crop diversification and agricultural development, in order to combat major agricultural issues and make suitable policy recommendations at micro (rural) and macro (urban) levels of agricultural planning. The study is a unique contribution to the field of agricultural geography, and will be of use to students and researchers, as well as government organizations, city/community planners and agriculture managers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxvi
Overview of the Study Area (Hasibur Rahaman)....Pages 1-33
Land Use and Cropping Pattern Dynamic (Hasibur Rahaman)....Pages 35-69
Agriculture Development: Inputs-Outputs Dimension (Hasibur Rahaman)....Pages 71-106
Status of Crop Diversification (Hasibur Rahaman)....Pages 107-137
Levels and Efficiency of Agricultural Development (Hasibur Rahaman)....Pages 139-187
Challenges and Opportunities of Agricultural Development in the District (Hasibur Rahaman)....Pages 189-220
Back Matter ....Pages 221-285

✦ Subjects

Geography; Physical Geography; Agriculture; Human Geography