Indian farming has been evolving mostly with an intrinsic and systemic contradiction; when productivity increases, income plunges; and, when both income and productivity improve simultaneously, livelihood may decline. This is mainly due to the non-integration amongst and between the production, market and livelihood. Global observers are shocked to see that with a buffer stock of 75 million tons of food grain, how does a nation reeling with hunger so harshly, and, which is reflected in our melancholic position on the ladder of global hunger index. The present book, based on the thesis work, carried out by Mr Debraj Roy in 2020 in a location of West Bengal under the guidance of Prof. S K Acharya of BCKV to empirically test the compliances and contradictions of these apparently conflicting issues in a way to derive a grassroot policy for the resilient strategy. A score of multivariate statistical techniques has been applied to extract the embedded factuality out of a plethora of hard evidences. Hope, the intellects and scholars across the disciplines would find the work conceptually and empirically interesting and innovative as well
Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kr Acharya, former Head, Dept. of Agril. Extension and Director, Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, WB, born on 6th October, 1960, started his career as Assistant Professor at BCKV in 1988 and has been in teaching, research and extension over 30 years. An erudite teacher as well as an elegant speaker, Prof. Acharya has also been the topper and awarded the certificate of merit in his M. Sc. (Ag) academic career in Agril. Extension. He is internationally acclaimed for his unique research domain of Social Entropy and Energy Metabolism, Social Ecology and Environmental Sociology, Enterprise Ecology Framework, Farm Stewardships: The Transition from Conservation, Technology Socialization Process, and The Social Ecology of Livelihood, which have got tremendous policy as well as scholastic importance. Research Publication 209 in National and International Journals. Book Publication: 95 books authored/co-authored, covering topics Participatory Extension Planning and Management; Value addition and quality management, Extension Strategy for Natural Resource Management; Horticulture Management with Quality Issues, Technology Socialization Process; Fish biodiversity; Income and Livelihood; Enterprise Management and Entrepreneurship Building; Women’s participation in Panchayat; Gender Issues in Floriculture; Technology gap in Floriculture; Enterprise Synergy in Agriculture; Disaster Management; Social Metabolism, Farm Energy Metabolism, Community Perception on Climate Change , Social Entropy and Chaos, Research areas of Publication: Community Forest Management and Role performance by EDC and FPC; Social forestry and community participation (paper published in Indian Forester); Membership of Distinction: Chancellor Nominee on selection committee; Member of Agriculture Commission; Marketing and Extension Sub Committee, Govt. of West Bengal; Expert member WWF projects in BTR (Buxa Tiger Reserve Project); Expert member; DFID project on Primary Education (DPEP); REIA, Visited Italy, France, Germany, China , Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Delivered 17 Keynote addresses in International Congress, Chaired 19 Sessions in International conferences, Editors of a score of national and international journals. He has so far been awarded with 13 best paper awards in National and International Conferences Organizing Secretary of two International Conferences, held in the years, 2016 & 2018, Jointly Organized by Department of Agricultural Extension, BCKV, WB and Krishisanskriti, New Delhi. His present RG score: 24.86 He has also been honored to be selected as the Convenor of Panel (PE-32) entitled The hunger , poverty and silence, of IUAES, University of Manchester, UK, 2013 .Co-PI of ICAR and Worldbank funded project on Conservation Agriculture. So, far he has successfully guided 16 Ph.D. scholars from BCKV CU, KU, Vidyasagar University. He is the fellow, ISEE, IARI, New Delhi.
Mr. Debraj Roy, passed out (M.Sc. Ag) in Agricultural Extension, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya in the year 2019. He was placed in first class and completed his dissertation under the guidance of Prof. S K Acharya. Mr Roy has been unique by his presence of mind, mettle and out of box thinking
Anannya Chakraborty is currently working as an assistant professor in Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, Punjab. She has completed her Doctoral Research as a UGC NET Junior Research Fellow under the guidance of Prof. S K Acharya, in the department of Agricultural Extension, BCKV. She has obtained her B.Sc. Agriculture degree from BCKV in the year 2015. She also has brilliantly completed her M.Sc. In Agricultural Extension from the same university in the year 2017. Both UGC NET with JRF and ICAR NET have been qualified by her. So far she has authored or co-authored five books and fifteen of her papers have successfully published in peer reviewed journals and some are in progress. She has taken part actively in a number of national and international seminars and conferences. She was honoured with best paper awards twice.
1. Introduction...........................................................................................1
2. Review of Literature.............................................................................5
3. Theoretical Orientation .....................................................................25
4. Research Setting..................................................................................53
5. Research Methodology ......................................................................61
6. Result and Discussion........................................................................69
7. Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation ..............................91
8. Future Scope of Study........................................................................93
Bibliography.........................................................................................95
Appendix ...........................................................................................101
