The First Edition Of Book Economics Of Agriculture Was Well Accepted By Students And Teachers Of Agricultural Economics Throughout The Country And Abroad. Teachers And Students Have Been Demanding Revised Edition Of The Book Since Long. Therefore, Efforts Have Been Made To Revise And Enlarge The First Edition.Topics Relating To Recent Developments In Rural Finance And Other Branches Of Agricultural Economics Have Been Included In This Second Edition. New Topics Like Agricultural Business Management (Abm) Have Been Included In The Syllabi Of B.Sc. (Agri.) As Well As In New Colleges Of Agricultural Marketing And Business Management Which Have Been Started In Maharashtra And In Other States Recently. These Colleges Offer Graduate And Postgraduate Courses In Agricultural Economics And In Agricultural Business Management. Therefore, A New Chapter, Covering The Latest Inclusions, Has Been Added In This Revised Edition. Similarly, Questions And Answers On Various Branches Of Agricultural Economics Alongwith Questions Of Asrb/Net Have Been Included In This Book.This Book Will Be Useful To The Students Of B.A., B.Sc. (Agri.), B.Sc. (Abm), B.Tech. (Agril. Engineering), M.A., M.Com., M.Sc. (Agril. Economics), M.Sc. (Abm), Ph.D. (Agril. Economics) And Ph.D. (Economics). This Book Will Also Cater To The Needs Of Those Who Are Preparing For Various Competitive Examinations. The Teachers Of Agricultural Economics/Economics/Agri-Business Management Will Also Find It Immensely Useful.

The globalization of goods, services and capital for agriculture is fundamental to the future of developing countries and has major implications for the fight against poverty and sustainability of the environment. In recent years, agriculture has once again returned to a position of centre stage as food price volatility has led countries to re-examine their development strategies. This new edition of the essential textbook in the field builds on the 2006 original and reflects the following developments: the increased impact of climate change issues affecting agricultural markets such as bio-fuels, the rise in farm prices and energy costs the move to higher valued agricultural products The book contains a wealth of real world case studies and is now accompanied by a website that includes powerpoint lectures, a photo bank and a large set of discussion and exam questions. The accompanying website is available to view at http://ecagdev.agecon.vt.edu/

An Introduction to Agricultural Economics: The book has made an attempt to focus on basic concepts of Economics (Micro Economics: Wants, Consumption, Production, Utility, Demand and Supply, Consumer's Surplus, Exchange and Distribution etc. Macro Economics: National Income, Taxation, Inflation and Deflation, Public Finance, Issues of Indian Agriculture like Contract farming, Rythu Bazar, Regulated Market, WTO, Land Reforms, e-markets in Indian Agriculture and econometrics.) This book is primarily targeted at graduate and postgraduate students of various disciplines like: Agriculture and Rural development, Policy formulation, Planning, Rural management etc, where the students will find the book informative and useful. This book may be equally helpful for courses like, B.Sc (Agriculture), BBA, B.Com, M.Sc, M.A (Economics), M.Com, M.B.A and other professional courses in selecting optional or elective papers. This book will also be helpful to grow the interest among the teachers, trainers, research scholars, and government/non- government organizations and also among the funding agencies engaged in the path ways of Rural development/ Management.

The first of an eight-volume series, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, this book analyzes the trends in the published literature of agricultural economics and rural sociology during the past fifty years. It uses citation analysis and other bibliometric techniques to identify the primary journals, report series, and monographs of current importance to the developed industrial countries as well as those in the Third World.

Agricultural Economics examines the production, distribution, and consumption of agricultural goods, applying economic principles to understand the behavior of agricultural markets, policies, and sustainability.

This book contains a vintage handbook on farm economics, with information on different farming systems, machinery, marketing produce, buying equipment, keeping records, and much more. Although old, much of the information contained within this book is timeless and will be of considerable utility to modern prospective farmers. Contents include: “The Nature and Scope of Agricultural Economics”, “Systems of Farming”, “The Farming Considered as a Business Empire”, “Some Units of Economic Measurements in Farm Organization and Management”, “Farm Records and Accounts”, “Cost of Production”, “Size of Farms”, “Selection of Farm Enterprises”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on agriculture and agronomy.