Planning at Grassroots: Government's Participation in People's Plan an Experiment

by G. Palanithurai, M.A. Thirunavukkarasu, G. Uma

Overview

Today's plant lovers, food producers and agricultural planners, voices together to protect the plants from insects and diseases. Damages to the plants by insects are easily felt, but not realised fully. Every year, hundreds of people die of hunger. We can provide them with enough, food, if food crops are kept safe. Plant Protection continues to play a significant role in achieving targets of crop production. Major thrust areas of plant protection are promotion of integrated pest management, ensuring availability of safe and quality pesticides for sustaining crop production. It is essential to have the basic knowledge about the plant pathogens, different kinds of diseases caused by them to various crops and of course, the methods of controlling diseases to avoid enormous losses. This book is a serious endeavour in this direction. This Encyclopaedia in four volumes takes the stock of present state of art in plant protection. It caters to the need of knowledge hungry biologists, agriculturists, policy planners and specialists in the field of plant protection and of course the students, teachers and researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789355940285
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	326
File size:	23 MB
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About the Author

Prof. Ganapathi Palanithurai, Coordinator in Rajiv Gandhi Chair, Department of Political Science and Development Administration, in Gandhigram Rural University, Tamil Nadu. He is also associated with Centre Planning Commission, State Planning Commission of Tamil Nadu, Population Foundation of India, Ford Foundation, UNICEF, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, CAPART, Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment and DAN I DA (Danish-lndo Development Agency) in specific areas of activities in connection with empowerment of people. Prof. Palanithurai has to his credit fifty eight books and one hundred and twenty seven articles on three major areas, namely, legislative behaviour, ethnicity and Panchayati Raj System. He was recipient of Fellowship from Shastri lndo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi and World Academy of Art and Science, USA. He is the Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Council for Sustainable Livelihoods. He was a visiting fellow in the McGill University, Canada in 1989. He is a member of the expert committee constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu to monitor the training programme for local body leaders.

M.A. Thirunavukkarasu, the Field Co-ordinator of The Hunger Project, Gandhigram Rural Institute, is an activist working with people at grassroots level. He, along with veteran Gandhian activists Jegannathan and Krishnammal, participated in tillers movement. He is an expert in micro-planning and he has facilitated the Panchayat leaders to prepare micro plan document for their respective Panchayats. He associates himself in capacity building exercise for local body leaders and has assisted in evolving training module and manual for local body leaders training.

G. Uma presently works as the Co-ordinator of The Hunger Project in Gandhigram Rural Institute. As a Co-ordinator of the project for Tamil Nadu, she co-ordinated women leadership trainning programme for the elected women representatives, especially women presidents of Gram Panchayats. She has also developed a support structure to extend support to elected women representatives when they are in the field. She was instrumental in sensitizing the grassroots media to cover the struggle of the women leaders in the Panchayati Raj System.