Synopsis During reform era agricultural sector witnessed stagnant trend in food production. Instead of benefiting the farmers, the process of economic liberalization and globalization is compounding their apprehension and insecurity. Rural unemployment is increasing making the rural youth desperate. So, there is an urgent need for Second Green Revolution in Indian agriculture and taking it to higher trajectory of 4 per cent annual growth.

With the objective of bringing and discussing various issues of agricultural sector of India so far the Indian Economic Association declared, Structural Reforms and Agriculture as one of the themes for deliberations during its 92nd Annual Conference, held at School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa under the presidentship of Prof. C.H. Hanumantha Rao during December 27-29, 2009. Out of several scholarly papers submitted and presented on this theme during the conference 18 papers have been selected for inclusion in this book. There is an introduction added for the convenience of the readers, which outlines main issues, and the central tenet of the book along with a brief summary of each paper.