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This book is one of the first of its kind on socioeconomic aspects of agricultural biotechnology in the country. It covers a range of issues relating to potential, performance and concerns regarding biotechnology in India and offers valuable suggestions for policymaking. The debate on biotechnology so far focused mainly on the likely risks instead of objectively assessing the technology on a case-by-case basis to come out with suitable policy implications. The present book attempts to fill this serious gap by discussing the nature and organisation of biotechnology, present pattern of product development, concerns for poverty reduction arising from the nature and pattern of product development and the performance of the first biotech product in the country viz., Bt cotton. It uses the results of two longitudinal surveys conducted in all the cotton growing agro-climatic zones of Andhra Pradesh and employs a conceptual framework to bring out the performance of this technology.

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N. Chandrasekhara Rao is an associate professor at the Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) and his areas of research interest include agricultural and development economics, poverty reduction, and the labor market. S. Mahendra Dev is chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices based in New Delhi and is a former director for CESS. He has written extensively on agricultural development, poverty and public policy, food security, employment guarantee schemes, social security, farm and nonfarm employment. He has been a consultant to many international organizations, including the World Bank, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

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