Environmental Management and Indian Agriculture

Environmental and developmental decision-making processes should be integrated for better environmental planning and management. There is an increasing concern in India today about ecological imbalance and the adverse effects on agriculture. With the new mandate of sustainable development, we have more significant challenges. Environmental management should be applied to Indian agriculture in the context of technological changes and economic reforms. For India with more than one-fourth of the rural population below the poverty line, intergenerational equity is of great concern to policy-makers