Impact of Irrigation and Labor Availability on Multiple Cropping: A Case Study of India

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst, 1980 - 35 pagini
 

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Pagina 27 - India, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Estimates of Area and Production of Principal Crops in India.
Pagina 11 - Contrary to popular impression, it is not only irrigated area that is capable of having more than one crop. India has a large area under double cropping...
Pagina 13 - ... would like to discuss. The excellent review paper by Mansfield in particular invites extended discussion but time does not permit this. It is by now well recognized that a competitive economy will underinvest in R and D judged from the standpoint of society. Mansfield makes this point and I accept it as far as it goes. But it may not go far enough to meet reality in the US in the 1960's. For the theoretical underpinnings of this theorem as it has been developed by Arrow et al. require competition....
Pagina 11 - Executive Yuan, Council for Economic Planning and Development, Taiwan Statistical Data Book...
Pagina 11 - And, long ago, the farmer practiced interculture — the growing of two or more crops on the same land at the same time.
Pagina 33 - Role of irrigation in integrated area development planning," paper presented at the Seminar on the Role of Irrigation in Agricultural Development (RIAD), Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. Sharma, TC (1979) Agricultural Landuse and Crop Production in Uttar Pradesh...
Pagina 11 - Net irrigated area refers to the physical area irrigated during an agricultural year, each hectare of which is counted only once even if two or more crops are irrigated in different seasons on the same land. Gross irrigated area...
Pagina 11 - The results imply that land reforms designed to rectify the existing imbalance between the availability of land and labor can exert a significantly favorable effect on cropping intensity because smaller farms tend to use irrigation and labor more intensively.
Pagina 12 - These differences between the 1961 and 1971 censuses are believed to be an important reason for the observed decline in the proportion of cultivators and an increase in the proportion of agricultural...
Pagina 11 - Since the early 1960s India's five-year plans have aimed at a growth rate in agricultural output of 4...

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