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Contents I Introduction 1 Agricultural Transformation Concepts and ProspectsSubir Ghosh 2 Farmer Participation in Private Sector Agricultural ExtensionDominic Glover 3 Effects of Agricultural Management on Soil Organic Matter and Carbon Transformation A ReviewXiaobing Lir SJ Herbert AM Hashemi X Zhang and G Ding 4 Agricultural Transformation Towards MarketizationNirbachita Karmakar 5 Ecosystem Approaches to Research on Agricultural Transformation Nutrition and Human Health 6 Agricultural Transformation and Changing Status of WomenP Narasimha Rao and R Venkata Rao II Country Perspectives 7 Post Communist Transformation in Bulgaria Implications for Development of Agricultural Specialization and Farming StructuresHrabrin Bachev 8 Agricultural Extension in Africa and Asia Carl K Eicher 9 Agricultural Transformation in Latin AmericaBasistha Chatterjee  10 Agricultural Transformation The Case of ChinaAsis Kumar Pain 11 Agricultural Transformation in IndiaBasistha Chatterjee and Visvarup Chakravarti 12 Contract Farming and Horticulture A Perspective on Agricultural Transformation in IndiaRahul Gupta  IndexLow agricultural growth and increasing population pressure raise the problem of poverty of a nation As agriculture is the only mainstay of most of the rural people of nation there is need to transform traditional agricultural practices to more specialized production oriented towards the market or other systems of exchange so as to ensure better standard of livingAgricultural transformation is a process through which a single farm shifts from traditional production system to a highly specialized production system towards market orientation Agricultural transformation not only creates output for final consumption but also supplies inputs for other manufacturing industries The process involves a greater dependence on input and output delivery systems and increased integration of agricultural transformation aims to create a market-oriented and internationally competitive agricultural production system through the adoption of new technologies so as to improve the socioeconomic status of the rural masses It is a broader process in which an increasing proportion of economic output and employment are generated by sectors other than agriculture In this way agricultural transformation can be a market-oriented production system through the structural transformation of rural masses which can create integrated rural developmentWith this background an attempt has been made in this book to introduce the concept of agricultural transformation and discuss the efforts made in different countries towards its implementation 204 pp.

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