Subject(s): Agriculture -- Economic Conditions -- Social aspects -- Enviornment -- Population -- Food supply -- Crop -- Animal Husbandry -- Environment and agricultural resources : Physical features, geography, food crop, crop production, non-food crops -- Population : Size and growth of population, industrialisation, urbanization, health and efficiency, family planning -- Food supply and nutrition : Effects of world war II, Bengal famine, effects of partition, malnutrition, food policy, imports, food corporation of India -- Agricultural production : Trends, Growth rate under first 3 plans, food grains and non food grains, regional varieties in production, yield trends -- Crop productivity - problems and programmes for improvement : Improved seeds, Control of pest and plant diseases, irrigation, government policy, soil conservation, technical research -- Animal husbandry : livestock, cattle breeding, insurance, dairy development, national milk policy -- Evolution of Indian agricultural policy : Traditional agriculture in India, royal commission on Indian agriculture, depression, multiple cropping and short term crops -- Land tenure and land reform : Zamindari, ryotwari system, mahalwari system, tenancy problem and legislation, agrarian reforms pre and post independence, tenancy reform, ceiling on land holdings, acquisition of surplus lands -- Size of holdings and pattern of land tenure : distribution of holdings, sub-division and fragmentation -- Community development and panchayati raj : community projects, national extension service, decentralization commission, village panchayat legislation, panchayat samitis, zila parishad -- Agricultural prices and price policy : agricultural and non-agricultural prices,food grains, non food grains, agricultural prices commission -- Agricultural finance : government finance for agriculture, money lender finance, moratorium, debts, limitation of debt legislation -- Role of co-operation : Policy developments, RBI, SBI, Co-operative credit, primary agricultural credit societies, land mortgage banks, agricultural refinance corporation, policy and development , non credit co-operation, co-operative farming societies, fisheries societies, weaver's co-operatives -- Co-operative marketing : Financing resources, working of societies, co-operative processing, warehousing and storage, committee on co-operative marketing -- Agricultural taxation : land revenue, assessment under ryotwari and mahalwari, land revenue collection, agriculture income tax, irrigation rates, methods of water rate fixation, agricultural taxes, betterment levy -- Foreign trade in agricultural commodities : Export and import of agricultural commodities, balance of trade, direction of foreign trade -- Agricultural labour and rural employment : Occupational structure, agricultural labour, agricultural labour enquiry, employment and development planning, small industry, rural industries planning committee, mobility of labour and regional development, surplus labour as potential savings, rural man power -- Social services : health services and medical relief, health programmes , rural housing, village water supply, education, social eduction -- Indian agricultural development in the three plans : planning commission, green revolution, new agricultural strategy, agricultural credit -- Indian rural problem - review and perspective : Developmental impulse, population and economic growth, land reforms, land taxation and savings, price policy, social change