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Bhupinder Singh Hooda, in this book, makes a strong case – food and work for all is quite attainable if we apply science to meet the challenge of securing the population's supply of food and demand for livelihood.

The author's major concern in the book is to look for ways and means of increasing agricultural production. He maintains that one clear way is to deal with the significant gaps in production and productivity. This can be done by bridging the yield gaps between the genetic potential, the demonstration yields and the yield at the farmer's field (vertical gaps) and the yield gaps that exist among geographically differentiated regions (horizontal gaps).

Production is the book's prime concern but not the only one. The author maintains that agriculture, at this point of time can also help our struggle for gender equality. With many poor farmers migrating to cities for work, women are left in the rural areas to be custodians of our food security'. Given enough 'extension support and also land rights', women can play a greater role in moving India's agricultural hopes forward.

There are other startlingly appealing insights. The author looks at organic farming as an answer to the problem of keeping input prices low, the farmers' returns high and the consumer prices low. By subsidising organic farming for the small and marginal farmers they can be drawn into this beneficial mode of farming.

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Author: Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Year: 2011
Price: Rs. 495
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Dimensions: 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Publisher: Macmillan India
ISBN 13: 9780230324275

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