28 July 2011
Transformation of the Indian agricultural economy: is India progressing in the right direction?
Platform Technologies Research Institute is hosting a Lecture presented by Professor Surendra Singh is a Professor of Geographical Sciences at the North Eastern Hill University in India
Event details
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Title: |
Transformation of the Indian agricultural economy: is India progressing in the right direction? |
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Person: |
Surendra Singh Professor of Geographical Sciences at the North Eastern Hill University in India |
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2012-07-04 |
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10:00am – 11:00am |
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Location: |
Research Lounge Building 8, Level 5 |
Further details
RSVP
Free event. Bookings essential.
Morning tea will be provided.
RSVP to platformtechnologies@rmit.edu.au
Abstract
The Indian economy underwent a period of rapid transformation following the economic liberalisation phase.
This shift to a market economy characterises an increased inequality, rising rural-urban divide and new economic restructuring where the costs of agricultural production increasingly become space dependant.
The distance to city-based economies, in particular, is emerging as a significant driver which determines the transportation costs involved in procuring essential inputs for farming and supplying agricultural products to market.
This lecture will highlight the salient characteristics of India’s agricultural economy after the post liberalisation phase. It will elaborate the reasons for a ‘boom’ in production in some agricultural regions and at the same time as a ‘bust’ in other areas which are relatively disadvantaged, remote and peripheral to significant market centres.
About the Presenter
Professor Surendra Singh is a Professor of Geographical Sciences at the North Eastern Hill University in India.
He is one of the leading regional scientists specialising in modelling agricultural production processes and embedded evolutionary spatial structures.
He was a Visiting Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw and with the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok.
He has held several significant positions including Dean and Chairman of the Board for the School of Human and Environmental Sciences in the University.
Professor Singh has undertaken several research projects for the Department of Science and Technology and for the University Grant Commission for the Government of India.
He has written more than 50 research papers and numerous books on aspects of Indian agriculture.