Subject(s): Indian agriculture - history -- Pre-independence agrarian system in India, food crops and cash crops, zamindari system, famines and scarcities -- Nature and importance of agriculture in the Indian economy : Agriculture in constitution of India -- Agricultural inputs : Seeds, fertilisers,irrigation, insecticides,implements and machines and agricultural research : National seed policy 2002, Command area development programme (CADP), Accelerated irrigation benefits programme (AIBP) -- Land reforms- objectives and achievements : Aspects of land reform, critical appraisal of land reforms in India, 8th and 9th plan of land reforms -- Agricultural/rural credit-new initiatives : Credit needs of Indian farmers, rural indebtedness,rural credit, Kisan credit cards (KCC), agricultural credit -- Marketing of agricultural produce- recent reforms : inter-ministerial task force on agricultural marketing, salient feature of the model act for state agricultural produce marketing act 2003 -- New agricultural strategy/ green revolution : inter regional inequalities, HYV programmes -- Agricultural workers- recent employment guarantee : National rural employment guarantee act 2005 -- Agricultural price policy, food subsidy and public distribution system : minimum support prices, food subsidy, burgeoning food stocks, public distribution system, long term grain policy, food policy -- Indian agriculture and WTO : Aggregate measures of support (AMS), green box support, blue box support, export competition, Hong Kong ministerial declaration 2005 -- Information technology in Indian agriculture : IFFCO-ISRO cooperation, cyber dhabas, E-Choupal,national e-governance plan,LAN at ministry of agriculture, PPIN, AGMARKNET, DACNET, MIS support to food processing industries, VISTARNET, APHNET, ARISNET, FERMIS, computation of agricultural census -- Agricultural insurance : CCIS, ESIS, NAIS, FIIS, livestock insurance -- Taxation of agricultural income : Recommendation of the tax reforms committee 1991, recommendation of the tax force on direct taxes 2002,recommendation of the committee on taxation of agricultural wealth and income 1972 -- Recent initiatives in Indian agriculture : national agriculture policy 2000, export and import, marine fishing policy 2004 -- Extracts on agriculture from India's Five year plans (1 to 10 plan including mid-term appraisal of tenth plan ) -- Year-wise review of agricultural developments in India 1947-2006 -- Time series data (1950-51 to 2004-05 ) on Indian agriculture