About the Journal

It gives us immense pleasure to present this book “Sustainable Environment and Agriculture: An Indian Perspective” to the esteemed readers. This book has been designed by the faculties of Department of Economics of Central University of Odisha, Koraput to aware the people regarding the need of the hour of the sustainable development practices to protect the environment with respect to the fulfillment of needs of present as well as future generations with optimal use of land and water in context of alarming global warming as per projected by many studies by global scientist.

Presently, the world is facing challenges of climate change, water scarcity, high temperature, environmental pollution and so on. Therefore, arises the need of commitment to social progress, environmental balance, and economic growth. An attempt has been made to tackle the issues and find out solutions especially in the agricultural sector in India. This book has discussed about various aspects like the land use pattern; land ownership; agricultural credit; set back of COVID-19 on agriculture and allied sector; and many more. The book also consists of three chapters concerning socio-economic condition of people in the industrial and mining region.