Rural non-farm economy: A note on the impact of crop-diversification and land-conversion in India

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 69-75

  Chakrabarti, Saumya ^a   Kundu, Anirban ^a  

^a VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

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