Keeping in view the crucial role agriculture plays for improving all the
socioeconomic indicators in a developing country , need to transform it from an
underdeveloped sector to a dynamic one becomes all the more important. After
all it was the agricultural revolution which released the resources, human and
financial, and put Europe on the trajectory of accelerated growth , ensuring
food security , improving the balance of payments position besides providing a
base upon which the whole edifice of their economies stood during the
Industrial Revolution.
This calls for the
implementation of comprehensive agrarian reforms which could bring fundamental
structural and institutional changes in the political economy of a county’s
agriculture sector. These countries need to push their technological frontiers
in the agriculture sector for enhancing its productivity to improve the quality
of life of their citizens. Both need an efficient, productive and profitable
agriculture sector whose growth is sustainable and outputs are competitive.
This is possible only and only if we increase the pace of farm mechanisation
and technological innovation in all the agricultural operations. Some of the areas
which need proper policy formulation, creation of institutions and allocation
of resources are as follows:
- Formulation
of comprehensive Land Use Policy
- Improving
Agricultural Terms of Trade
- Developing
Rural Infrastructure
- Improving
Rural Governance
- Ensuring
Environmental Sustainability
- Creating
Linkages and promoting Investment
- Gender
Mainstreaming
- Changing Production Relations
For details, kindly
read my article at http://www.shahidhussainraja.com/agrarian-reforms-in-developing-countries
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