{"product_id":"9789350800553","title":"Transforming Agriculture, Transforming India","description":"Agriculture forms the backbone of India's Economy as the livelihood of more than Sixty percent of the country's inhabitants depends directly or indirectly on agriculture.\u003cbr\u003eIn the past decade, India and Indian agriculture have faced numerous grave challenges such as effects of climate change and Global warming and natural calamities and a Global Economic downturn.\u003cbr\u003eSince 2004, when Shri Sharad Pawar, himself an agriculturist, took over as Union Minister for Agriculture, a number of measures were introduced and existing schemes strengthened to improve the state of agriculture in India by not only addressing existing challenges but also by making India's farmers capable of tackling future challenges.\u003cbr\u003eMeasures such as encouraging adoption of appropriate crop patterns, projects to ensure better grain yields, empowering agriculture-related institutions of research and development have resulted in India being self-sufficient not only in agriculture but also taking giant strides in related sectors such as horticulture, fisheries, floriculture.\u003cbr\u003eThrough Shri Sharad Pawar's speeches, delivered on numerous important occasions, readers will get a glimpse of this fascinating story of India's agricultural transformation.","brand":"Codemantra LLC \u0026 Ameya prakashan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175238910192,"sku":"9789350800553","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789350800553_p0.jpg?v=1763673708","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789350800553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}