Status of Agricultural Research in Punjab: Imperative for Rejuvenation

Chadha, Vikram

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“…Punjab’s economy in general and its rural economy in particular have been under serious economic crisis since the mid-1980s. A battery of scholars questioned the feasibility and viability of the Punjab model of development (Bhalla & Chadha, 1983; Chadha, 1986; Chand, 1999; Gill, 1988; Sidhu, 2002; Singh, 2000). But this intellectual feedback was not duly acknowledged by the state, and a lack of suitable policy intervention led to rural indebtedness (Shergill, 2010) and rampant farmer suicide (Sidhu et al, 2011; Singh, 2004; Singh et al, 2016; Sharma, 2020).…”

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Changing Employment Patterns: An Analysis of Rural Labour Force in Punjab

Sharma,

Sharma

2023

The Indian Economic Journal

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The story of Punjab’s economic development witnessed an asymmetrical shift in the structure of output and employment due to the intensive capitalistic model of production in agriculture. The present study, based on National Sample Survey Office data, examines the patterns of employment and output in rural economy of Punjab during the pre-reform and post-reform period. Rural Punjab witnessed fall of work participation rate and phenomenon of ‘defeminisation’ of the labour force in agriculture during the post-reform period. There is a paradigm shift as the share of non-agriculture employment increased to 59.3% as per Periodic Labour Force Survey 2018; consequently, the non-agriculture sector becomes a major driving force in the state economy. An increase in employment elasticity among all sectors (except construction sector) during the post-reform period is a good sign. But a substantial decline in employment elasticity for all the sectors (except the construction sector) of Punjab is a disquieting phenomenon during the study period. Amidst the agrarian crisis, the rural non-farm sector can emerge as a silver lining, but evangelists of market economy disregarded the rural non-farm sector. Hence, the state should abdicate its neoliberal policies and adopt post-Washington consensus for the development of the rural non-farm sector within a given mode of production. JEL Codes: E24, J16, J43, J46, O11

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