Agricultural Development Perspective: A Review of Three Approaches

Sustainability of the level of growth, changes experienced in the structure of this growth and the overall reforms in the economic policy have together brought the agricultural policy perspectives at cross roads. Sustainability here would mean the capability of maintaining the present level of growth without affecting the eco-structure (Pearce, 1988). Therefore, the management of this situation under present conditions is entirely different compared to those confronted in mid-sixties or in early seventies. In the absence of any long term policy document for the most important sector of the economy, the directions are (unfortunately) received from the exogenous factors. Hence, a look in retrospect of the developmental patterns of agricultural sector becomes necessary.