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                     MA (ECONOMICS) 
                     FINAL SEMESTER 
                        MAECO504 
       ENVIRONMENT, POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE 
                             
                             
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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                                                            BOARD OF STUDIES 
                   1.      Prof. S.K Nayak                                                    
                           Head                                                              Chairman (Ex-officio) 
                           Dept. of Economics, RGU 
                                                                                             Member 
                   2.      Prof. A. Mitra 
                           Dept. of Economics, RGU 
                                                                                             Member 
                   3.      Prof. (Ms.) V. Upadhyay 
                           Dept. of Economics, RGU 
                                                                                             Member 
                   4.      Prof. N.C Roy 
                           Dept. of Economics, RGU 
                                                                                             Member 
                   5.      Prof. M P Bezbaruah 
                           Dept. of Economics, 
                           Guwahati University, Guwahati 
                                                                                             Member 
                   6.      Dr. RajuMondal 
                           Dept. of Economics, 
                           Assam University, Silchar, Assam 
                                                                                             Member Secretary 
                   7.      Dr. LijumNochi 
                           Dept. of Economics, RGU 
                    
                    
                    
                   Authors:- 
                   Prof. N.C. Roy & Prof. V. Uphadhayay, Dept of Economics, RGU (Unit: IV & V) 
                   Dr. Maila Lama, Dept of Economics, RGU (Unit: III, VIII & IX) 
                   Dr. Kaju Nath, NIT, Agartala (Unit: VI, VII & X) 
                   Mr. Debojit Bhuyan, Research Scholar, Dept of Economics, RGU (Unit: I & II) 
                    
                    
                    
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
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                   SYLLABI-BOOK MAPPING TABLE 
                                PAPER NO: MAECO504 
                     ENVIRONMENT, POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE 
          SYLLABI                                                Mapping 
                                                                 in Book 
          UNIT-I: THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT                 
          Components of Environment - Interlinkage between Economy and Environment -
          Environmental Economics vs Natural Resources Economics - Common Property 
          Resources - Open Access - Tragedy of Common - Environmental Degradation as 
          market  failure  –  Externality  -  Coase  theorem:  Market  efficiency  through 
          negotiation - Critical evaluation 
                                                                  
          UNIT - II: ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION 
          Use value and non-use value - Contingent Valuation method - Hedonic Pricing - 
          Travel Cost Method (TCM) 
                                                                  
          UNIT - III: ENVIRONEMNT AND DEVELOPMENT 
          Environment and Development trade-off - Population, Poverty and Environment -
          Trade and Environment - Concept of Sustainable Development - Indicators of 
          sustainable Development - Rules to sustainability - Concept of Green Accounting 
                                                                  
          UNIT IV - POPULATION GROWTH AND FERTILITY 
          Trends  of  population  growth  since  the  beginning  of  20th  Century  -  Basic 
          measures  and  concepts  in  Demography  -  Basic  Demographic  Equation  - 
          Demographic Data Sources - Censuses: Definition given by the United Nations 
          handbook of the Census (1958) -  Vital Statistics - Basic Measures of Fertility - 
          Types of Analysis: Period and Cohort measures - Child-Women Ratio (CWR) - 
          Crude Birth Rate (CBR) -General Fertility Rate (GFR) – Age-specific Fertility 
          Rates (ASFR) - Total Fertility Rate (TFR) - Gross Reproductive Rate (GRR) - 
          Net Reproductive Rate (NRR) -Economic Theories of fertility 
                                                                  
          UNIT- V: MORTALITY 
          Measures  of  Mortality-Life  Table-  Trends  of  Mortality  in  Developed  and 
          Developing Countries - Mortality trends country wise -Determinants of Mortality 
                                                                  
          UNIT-VI: INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 
          Nature  of  Agricultural  Economics  -  Interdependence  and  Complementarities 
          between  Agriculture  and  Industry  -Agriculture,  Poverty  and  Environment  
          Farming  Systems    -  Farm  Size  and  Practices  -  Farm  Efficiency  Measures  - 
               Resource Management in Agriculture 
          UNIT- VII: ISSUES IN FARM MANAGEMENT                    
          Nature  of  Agricultural  Production  Function:  Cobb-Douglas  -  Nature  of 
          Agricultural  Production  Function:  Spillmans-  Risk  and  Uncertainty  in 
          Agricultural  Production  and  Prices  -  Decision  theory  -  Cobweb  Theorem  - 
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       Nerlove's Model - Agricultural Marketing - Marketed and Marketable Surplus   - 
       Mathur-Eizkel  Hypothesis  -  Farm  Size  and  Productivity  -  Pricing  policy 
       (including support price) 
                                             
       UNIT –VIII: THEORIES OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT 
       Lewis Model - Jorgenson’s Model - Theories of Agricultural Development: Schultzian 
       Theory  -  Mellor’s  theory  of  Agricultural  development  -  Boserup’s  Theory  of 
       Agricultural Development - The Chayanov Farm Household model - Barnum–Squire 
       Farm Household Model - The Low’s Model of farm household 
                                             
       UNIT – IX: INSTITUTIONS AND AGRICULTURE 
       Land Tenure System - Tenant-Landowner Model: Marshall and Cheung Models -
       Rural  credit  market  -  Monopolistic  credit  market  -  Characteristics  of  semi-
       feudalism - Stagnation under semi-feudalism- Bhaduri’s model 
                                             
       UNIT- X: ISSUES IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA 
       Agricultural System in India - Problems of Diffusion of New Technology   - 
       Limited spread of Green Revolution - Food Security - The State and Agriculture - 
       WTO and Indian Agriculture -