AERA, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Former Chairman, CACP, Government of India; Honorary Professor and Former Director, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur 302 004, India.
*E-mail: ssacharya@idsj.org
†Presidential Address at the 15th Annual Conference of Agricultural Economics Research Association (India) (AERA), organized by University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, October 25–26, 2007
