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100			_aGulati, Ashok
245			_aMillennium budget: agriculture and rural development
260			_c2000
300			_ap.1143-146
362			_a1 Apr
520			_aThe overall approach of the budget in regard to agriculture and rural development, of containing subsidies and increasing investment, is right. But real rationalisation of subsidies requires not merely price revisions but substantial institutional reforms. Similarly, it would require massive doses of investment in irrigation and R and D before a significant weather-proofing of Indian agriculture can be achieved and to expect that the proposals contained in the budget for 2000-2001 can put agriculture on a sustainable growth path of 4 per cent per annum is naive. - Reproduced
650			_aAgriculture - India
650			_aRural development - India
650			_aBudget - India
650			_aBudget
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a44470
999			_c44470 _d44470