Book offering insight into UP’s economy released
LUCKNOW: Deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma released a book ‘The Economy of Uttar Pradesh’ by former bureaucrat Arvind Narain Mishra and senior journalist Atul Chandra at Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh Sansthan here on Friday.
“We have tried to write it in an easy and readable style to demystify the complex and intimidating scope of the economy of Uttar Pradesh and the process of budgeting,” the authors said after the book release function.
They said the content and scope of the book had been kept within the framework of university syllabus.
In the book, the authors observe that agriculture, which is the means of subsistence for a large section of the state’s population, contributes to poverty to a major extent.
“Escape from poverty for households depending on farming exclusively is not likely,” they say.
The book says even under best farming conditions (climate, rainfall, soil, fertility etc.) a farmer working on 1 acre (1.5 bigha) of land can earn mere Rs 12,000 per year.
“An individual would need 3 acres of land to achieve the basic poverty line and at least 4 acres to sustain a household entirely on the income generated by farming – that too under ideal condition. Only 7.5 per cent of farmers in Uttar Pradesh have 6.6 acre (10 bigha) or more land and effectively 90 per cent farmers have small land holdings,” the authors observe.
› We have tried to write it in an easy and readable style to demystify the complex and intimidating scope of the economy of UPand the process of budgeting
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