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S. Alagappan

Dept. of Agronomy, The Indian Agriculture College (Affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University), Raja Nagar, Radhapuram, Tamil Nadu (627 111), India

DOI: NIL

Keywords: Agricultural export policies, Exports, Globalization, Imports and Liberalization

Abstract

In the last four decades there has been a radical restructuring of the scope and character of the production and distribution of many goods, including food. This process has been termed ‘globalisation’, shaping people’s lives in profound cultural, ideological and economic ways. The characteristics of globalisation include the worldwide spread of modern technologies of production, particularly including in communications but also into farming, the agricultural supply sector and food processing. This involves money, production and trade as part of what has been termed ‘the borderless world’, and the networking of virtually all the world’s economies, fostering ever-closer functional integration. It also refers to the linking and interrelationships between cultural forms and practices that develop when societies become integrated into and dependent on world markets as part of the congruence and homogenisation of capitalist economic forms, markets and relations across.

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