P. C. Bodh is an Indian Economic Service officer of the 1987 batch and is currently senior adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare, government of India. He was formerly director of the Planning Commission. With thirty years of experience in six ministries of the government of India, he has significantly contributed to policy making, research management and monitoring and has initiated the India Agricultural Outlook Forum. He has several academic and literary books to his credit and has been editing and managing the Ministry’s flagship publication – the monthly journal Agricultural Situation in India – and reports such as Agricultural Statistics at a Glance, State of Indian Agriculture and Glimpses of Indian Agriculture (2018).

• Part 1 Genesis 1. Demystifying Farmers’ Suicides 2. The Farmers’ Suicides Horror Statistics 3. Are Farmers’ Suicides a Growth Tragedy? 4. The Indian Farmer Now and Then in Godan Part 2 Probing into the Matter 5. Did India suffer myopia or fail her farsighted policies? 6. Suicide Trends and Conventional Agricultural Outlook 7. An Outcome Analysis: X-Raying Farms in India 8. The National Policy for Farmers 2007: An Action–Impact Matrix Analysis 9. Farmers’ Suicide in Drought-Prone Districts Part 3 Beyond Surveys and Their Findings 10. The Core Areas of Concern 11. The Welfare Focus 12. The Socio-Philosophical Insights 13. Farmers’ Suicide in Australia Part 4 Humanizing Farm Economics 14. Redeeming Agriculture’s Inviolability 15. Crop Viability or Household Viability? 16. Triple Bottom-line Farming Part 5 Innovative Economic Policy: Beyond Science and Technology 17. Innovative Managerial Solutions 18. The Internet-based Farmers’ Welfare Scheme 19. Farmers’ Budgetary Plank Approach 20. Conclusions and Policy Prescriptions

P. C. Bodh is an Indian Economic Service officer of the 1987 batch and is currently senior adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare, government of India. He was formerly director of the Planning Commission. With thirty years of experience in six ministries of the government of India, he has significantly contributed to policy making, research management and monitoring and has initiated the India Agricultural Outlook Forum. He has several academic and literary books to his credit and has been editing and managing the Ministry’s flagship publication – the monthly journal Agricultural Situation in India – and reports such as Agricultural Statistics at a Glance, State of Indian Agriculture and Glimpses of Indian Agriculture (2018).

• Part 1 Genesis 1. Demystifying Farmers’ Suicides 2. The Farmers’ Suicides Horror Statistics 3. Are Farmers’ Suicides a Growth Tragedy? 4. The Indian Farmer Now and Then in Godan Part 2 Probing into the Matter 5. Did India suffer myopia or fail her farsighted policies? 6. Suicide Trends and Conventional Agricultural Outlook 7. An Outcome Analysis: X-Raying Farms in India 8. The National Policy for Farmers 2007: An Action–Impact Matrix Analysis 9. Farmers’ Suicide in Drought-Prone Districts Part 3 Beyond Surveys and Their Findings 10. The Core Areas of Concern 11. The Welfare Focus 12. The Socio-Philosophical Insights 13. Farmers’ Suicide in Australia Part 4 Humanizing Farm Economics 14. Redeeming Agriculture’s Inviolability 15. Crop Viability or Household Viability? 16. Triple Bottom-line Farming Part 5 Innovative Economic Policy: Beyond Science and Technology 17. Innovative Managerial Solutions 18. The Internet-based Farmers’ Welfare Scheme 19. Farmers’ Budgetary Plank Approach 20. Conclusions and Policy Prescriptions