Agricultural Diversification And Smallholders In South Asia

Author : P. K. Joshi
Publisher : Academic Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9788171885510
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Diversification and Smallholders in South Asia written by P. K. Joshi and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles at two workshops.

Author : Ashok K. Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000336271
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Agriculture in South Asia written by Ashok K. Mishra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about public expenditure in the agricultural sector have reopened in many developing and emerging economies because of high budget deficits and changes in public opinion. As a result, agricultural policy in many of these countries is beginning to take a more market-oriented approach to agrarian problems, most notably through the introduction of contract farming. This book explores the policy issues around contract farming and its transformative potential and addresses the lack of empirical research on this topic by focusing on South Asia: principally India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The book first addresses the effects of contract farming (vertical coordination) on productivity, food security indicators (yield, consumption expenditures, prices), employment and input usage. Then it draws lessons from the South Asian case studies on the impact of institutional changes, like contract farming, on income and food security of smallholder households. The core of the book includes case study chapters on several commodities that are produced under contract farming, including vegetables and fisheries in Bangladesh, low-value crops in Nepal and coffee in India. Other chapters also explore contracts, storage, input usage and technical efficiency in these cases. This book serves as an essential guide to academics, researchers, students, legislative liaisons and think tank groups interested in agrarian issues, agricultural economics and agricultural policy in emerging economies and particularly in South Asia.

Author : Shawki M. Barghouti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Diversification written by Shawki M. Barghouti and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of the declining contribution of rice based farming in East Asia, investment in agriculture must diversify to maintain rural incomes. In the short term, countries should : 1) diversify toward crops for which there is a promising market ( fruits, vegetables, livestock products ) rather than sugar, rubber, coconuts and palm oil; and 2) expand small scale industry, marketing, and construction in rural areas. Long term needs include : a) higher yielding secondary food crops; b) better integration of livestock and crop production; c) more flexible irrigation and drainage systems; and d) improved technology to lower the cost of production. The paper concludes that the challenge to agriculture in East Asia is to sustain rice farming whicle expanding into a more flexible, diverse agriculture. The task for aid agencies will be to come up with suitable analytical skills and technical knowledge for the switch from commodity based project lending to broader sectoral support.

Author : Meghnad Desai
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520053694
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia written by Meghnad Desai and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic policy analysis of the relationship between the political power of local government and productivity in the agricultural sector in South Asia - analyses the impact of social change on sugar cane agricultural production, as well as historical aspects of power structures in India; examines economic implications of local level power configurations, esp. As regards farm-level decision making; discusses determinants and varieties of rural mobilization. References, statistical tables.

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diversification in Rural Asia written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Inderjit Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Farmers in South Asia written by Inderjit Singh and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many households rely for their livelihood on farming small but viable holdings in South Asia. Raising the productivity of these households is thus a central part of any strategy to reduce rural poverty in South Asia. This paper identifies some opportunities for implementing such a strategy. To that end, the paper examines the productivity and efficiency of small holdings and discusses the prospects for raising the output of traditional food grains through improved cultivation. The evidence comes from a wide range of sources, both academic and operational. It shows that the prospects for small farmers are by no means as gloomy as sometimes portrayed.

Author : Suresh Babu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Reforms and Food Security written by Suresh Babu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-03-16 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes various facets of economic reforms in South Asia and their implications for attaining food security. It illuminates relevant issues regarding the constraints and challenges in achieving food security, focusing on South Asian countries where a large percentage of the world's poor reside. This timely resource examines possible future courses of action involving trade and new technological advances to improve agriculture-led development in the region. The book examines the economic reforms and experiences of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Experts present lively, important debate on such significant issues as current economic reforms; trade liberalization; new technological options; the challenges of water¿pricing, subsidies, and other issues in irrigation; agricultural diversification and market reforms-how they increase food availability; interventions in food and nutrition security -- short-term solutions to reduce food insecurity; and more. Economic Reforms and Food Security: The Impact of Trade and Technology in South Asia contains numerous tables and figures to demonstrate the current food situation in this area of the world and offers projections of where improvements can be made.

Author : Nawal K. Paswan
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788176484107
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Trade in South Asia written by Nawal K. Paswan and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter G. Robb
Publisher : School of Oriental & African Studies University of London
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meanings of Agriculture written by Peter G. Robb and published by School of Oriental & African Studies University of London. This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume leading historians and economists from India and the West consider some persistent features and variable forces which explain changes through their impact on different levels of decision-making in agriculture. New light is cast on both the pre-colonial periods, and on currentdevelopment policies and problems.

Author : Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198799284
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa written by Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture in contexts where women have much poorer access to agrarian resources than men.