a simple, conventional answer to the question "How do you provide better diets to children in poor societies?" More income. With economic growth and related increased incomes, nutrition problems, we...
Review Of Agriculture
through the first three Five-Year Plans showed a rising trend, Foodgrains production increased at 3.66 per cent per annum during the 16-year period ending in 1964-65, a level which adequately...
R K Lahiri Apart from a quick increase in cereals output, the High-Yielding Varieties Programme has generated additional demand for agricultural labour.
B M Desai D K Desai An earlier study had indicated that farmers tend to substitute commercial hank credit for their own funds and/for other sources of finance, and that this substitution has no...
Japanese Farm Economy JAPAN has been conceived by W W Rostow to be an economy in which 'a relatively narrow array of natural resources was harnessed by a diligent, strongly-motivated population to...
Its Pattern and Variation P K Mukherjee The structure of agrarian economy, as brought out by the land distribution pattern, is distinctly different in the paddy areas from that in the wheat areas...
V S Vyas The tenant is taken, by researchers as well as by policy-makers, to be a small ill-equipped farmer, rack-rented and otherwise exploited by the landowner. There is much validity in this...
Some Neglected Aspects N S Jodha Land policies have to aim at (i) better utilisation, conservation, and development needs of the land, on the one hand, and (ii) land tenure and allied problems, on...
Donald A Williams The problem of managing water as an agricultural input
of Agricultural Economics, January- March 1963. 5 Following the step method, we note that the HYV alone will bring about a 13 per cent increase in demand for human labour above what it otherwise...
Too General Issues H B Shivamaggl Water Management Donald A Williams Mechanisation and Rural Employment Martin H Billings Arjan Singh Tenancy in Dynamic Setting V S Vyas Rajasthan's Land Policies N...
Ashok Rudra The first two instalments of this report on a sample survey of large farms in Punjab appeared in the Reviews of Agriculture of September 27 and December 27, 1969. Certain average...
With Some Implications for Rural Income Distribution Martin H Billings Arjan Singh This paper attempts to infer the influence of technological changes in farm production methods on employment and...
H B Shivamaggi The State of Food and Agriculture
Two opposite views have crystallised in the current debate on the indirect effects of the "new agricultural policy". According to one of these views, the policy is responsible for widening the gap,...
