Debashis Sarkar

• PhD in Agricultural Economics
• Professor at Visva-Bharati University

Forest Rights Act (FRA), has not been properly implemented, otherwise it is a remarkable devolution process and could have been an example for implementation of other poverty reduction policies. Particular Vulnerable Tribal groups (PVTGs), whose major income is through forest and their poverty alleviation is possible only by up-scaling the forest i...

Forest Rights Act (FRA), has not been properly implemented, otherwise it is a remarkable devolution process and could have been an example for implementation of other poverty reduction policies. Particular Vulnerable Tribal groups (PVTGs), whose major income is through forest and their poverty alleviation is possible only by up-scaling the forest i...

To meet the demand for the growing population, post-independence Indian agriculture was highly based on synthetic based modern agriculture. Though there is a positive change highly contributed economic growth, this chemical-based agriculture was criticized from environmental aspects. Conflict arises between synthetic based agriculture and increasin...

One of the fundamental human needs is food. This cannot be suspended and replaced with other substances. Food cannot be denied to human beings and it plays a major role in national development. It also plays a role in maintaining economic, social, and political stability. However, household food consumption expenditures in developing countries have...

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The study has investigated market integration across five major wholesale onion markets of Maharashtra and West Bengal, viz. Lasalgaon, Pune, Nagpur and Ahmednagar from Maharshtra and Kolkata (Barabazar) market from West Bengal, by adopting Johansen's multivariate cointegration approach. The study has confirmed the presence of cointegration, implyi...

Physical Education and sports play an important role in human life improving people’s health and personal growth and also offers the opportunity to experience fun, exercise and to spend time in a constructive manner. Balanced nutrition is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Combined with physical activity, our diet can help us to reac...

The problems accumulated due to more than a century of factory farming are aggravated by significant simultaneous and inter-related global phenomena. These include persistent global financial crises; volatility of food prices; widespread social unrest; and growing certainty that the impacts of climate change (such as water shortages, soil degradati...

It has been observed in several studies that lots of deprived communities are remote by distance, terrible road conditions, lack of or bust bridges and scarce transport. These conditions make it difficult for rural people to get their sell to market and finding jobs to place of work, to grip health emergencies, to admit children to school, and to o...

This study focuses on the aspects of resource use efficiency of onion growers in the Indo-Gangetic Region of West Bengal, India. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been used in measuring efficiency level of stakeholders followed by K-means clustering for grouping them into homogeneous strata. The prime objective of this study is to explore the sco...

Preparing a inclusive policy to begin suitable changes in the working silhouette of the flood affected people in a vulnerable area seems to represent the major challenges of flood risk management. An effort has been made in this paper to examine the earnings under different livelihoods patterns of the flood prone area over three divergent sub-perio...

An effort has been made in this study to measure the sub-period growth rates of area, production and yield of two major crops i.e. rice and wheat in West Bengal. The study also tries to examine the changes in costs and profitability of these two crops during this period. It has been observed that the agriculture of the state had been able to boost...

Divided into three parts - Rationale and Extent of Agricultural Diversification, Nature and Problems of Agricultural Diversification, and Food and Livelihood Security through Agricultural Diversification, this edited book examines various aspects of agricultural diversification in Eastern India. In recent years, Indian agriculture has been diversif...

This introductory chapter reviews the major findings of the chapters included in the edited volume examining various aspects of agricultural diversification in Eastern India, namely, the rationale and extent of diversification, the nature and problems of diversification, food and livelihood security through diversification, etc. These issues are di...

The study points out the need for third party intervention in promoting the livelihood patterns which are less exposed to the damaging effects of flood. Self-employment in small business or trading is a good option for households to supplement their streams of income. But such business even though required small capital, required at least some degr...

Mangroves are salt tolerant group of tropical plants that generally grows in the inter-tidal zones of land and sea. The Sundarbans is the world's largest mangrove forest covering Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta of India and Bangladesh. It protects the coastline of Bangladesh, and West Bengal of India from different environmental catastrophes and act...

The paper intends to study the nature of income inequalities, food security and poverty among different sub-groups of population in West Bengal, India. It has been found that inequalities in terms of share of total income and population exist both in case of agricultural and non-agricultural income irrespective of sub-groups. The contribution of ag...

There is no doubt in the fact that consumption of fertilisers in West Bengal has increased manifolds over the years. This has particularly in response to the need to replenish soil deficiencies and nutrient drainage associated with spread of improved varieties of rice, wheat and vegetables cultivation in the state. It is evident that during the per...

Women account for roughly half the world's population, perform two-thirds of the hours worked, receive one-tenth of the world's income, and have less than one hundredth of the world's property registered in their names. Female deprivation is very acute in the developing countries with high levels of poverty, though in affluent nations women also su...

The agricultural situation in the state has undergone a rapid change especially in last two decades. A very considerably part of the increase (real at 1980-81 prices) in the State Domestic Product (SDP) between 1985-86 and 1992-93 was sustained by the rise in the output from agriculture. During 1985-86 and 1992-93, the agricultural contribution to...