Agro-Based Industries and Their Prospects

Description

The Agriculture Industry encircles a variety of procedures wherein natural resources give rise to a number of products. Agriculture Industry consists of different activities which include harvesting crops, plants, livestock feeding, grazing etc. Agriculture Industry encompasses preparing the soil for optimum returns, improving crops, services relating to horticulture, landscaping services, veterinary services, managing labors or farmers etc. Agriculture Industry is always seeking to improve, by adopting new technologies. The new technologies aim at improving the efficiency of various Agricultural based operations. This book addresses development issues for sustained economic growth and employment, policies towards trade reform, capital mobility between formal and informal sectors, informal wage structure, price structure between agricultural and industrial commodities, strategies towards industrialization suited to regional variation of relative factor intensity and relative abundance of factors of production, wage structure for gender based occupational segregation in the non-agricultural sector, agriculture-industry interaction and priority policy objectives and the like. It also exemplifies the ill of the market structure in practice to such dynamics. Due to its comprehensiveness and contemporariness, it is felt that this book would be useful for academics, students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in development, in addition to being a book of teaching student particularly for macroeconomics, developing economics and political economy.