Livestock and Poultry Holdings in India: An Intertemporal Comparision

ISBN-13: 9783659705243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 108 str.

Birwal Devesh

Opis

The present work examines the trends in livestock and poultry in India. In particular the focus of the research is on the inter-linkage between size of landholdings and livestock holdings of the households across states in India. The decade between 1991-92 and 2002-03 which was characterised by a marked fall in agricultural growth, steeply rising landlessness and inequality in landholdings, and a general crisis in the agricultural sector was also marked by steep decline in livestock holdings and a decline in growth of poultry holdings. Ownership of livestock and poultry is extremely unequal across households in different size-classes of operational holdings. There is also evidence of differences in compositional shifts across different operational holdings and across states.

O autorze

Devesh Birwal is a Doctoral Candidate at Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He holds an M.Phil in Economics from the same University. His areas of research interest include Agricultural Economics with emphasis on livelihood issues of socially and economically marginalized groups in rural India.