Review of Agriculture March 1969 to meet the management needs of the new materials. Foremost among these is fertiliser. Without nutrient supplies there is no possibility for the farmer to innovate,...
Review Of Agriculture
The first issue which needs to be debated is whether the agricultural sector is in fact comparatively less taxed than other sectors. The next question, once this issue is settled, is io devise...
Performance in a Bengal District S Sengupta M G Ghosh This paper examines the record of the High-Yielding Varieties Programme for rice in Birbhum district of West Bengal One-fifth of the State...
The impression is widespread that areas covered by the High-Yielding Varieties Programme are given favoured treatment, in fact, there is very little to distinguish the State Governments'...
The New Agricultural Strategy is based on concentration of high-yielding varieties of seeds and complementary inputs on selected water-assured areas. The decision to concentrate resources marked a...
Raj Krishna S S Mehta No matter what indicator is used, it is clearly established that productivity has been declining and average cost of production rising in large-scale industries during the two...
Time lags are common in the collection and compilation of crop-production statistics. It takes about two years to revise the 'final' estimates, framed soon after the harvest, on the basis of...
Predatory Capitalism Daniel Thorner Growth Rates V V Bhatt Lessons of New Strategy V S Vyas New Strategy Revisited Ralph W Cummings, Jr Robert W Herdt, S K Ray HYVP for Rice S Sengupta, M G Ghosh...
Daniel Thorner "Welfare Capitalism" is the principal positive recommendation for agriculture offered by Gunnar Myrdal in his important treatise, "Asian Drama". Yet his own analysis of the agrarian...
Feasible Growth Rate V V Bhatt In the light of the experience of stresses and strains, both economic and social, in the last few years, it may be presumed that it will be the deliberate policy of...
Ashok Rudra In an earlier article in this journal the author had presented some farm level data that failed to indicate any dependence of yield per acre on farm size. He had suggested that since it...
Case of Rape and Mustardseed T Maitra Whether cultivators in developing countries respond to price changes in a definite way has been a subject of controversy.
K C Naik R Dwarakinath It is not through proliferation of extension staff that the farmer can be helped to raise yields but by making the extension staff work with the latest knowhow in a climate...
