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Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in the recent … comes from irrigated agriculture, in which groundwater plays a major role. Since the development of groundwater irrigation …
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transfers to the rest of the economy, thus providing a powerful argument to raise public expenditure on agriculture to make a …
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This paper present a model of the Green Revolution in India, in which the development and diffusion of HYVs, the … Net Revenue to agriculture. We find that climate affects technology development and diffusion, and that technology … development and diffusion affect the impacts of climate on agricultural productivity in India. …
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agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity in Indian Agriculture at CAB, Pune]. URL …
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agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses … agriculture and better human development outcomes. Broadly, it examines the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods …, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local …
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This paper makes an attempt to contribute to the literature of agricultural productivity in Bangladesh since 1961. The econometric results suggest that rapid adoption of green revolution technology, electricity consumption, literacy and credit have had a positive effect on agricultural...
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This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some households have gained, while others have failed to gain, in the processes of change involved. The analysis is...
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Food can be produced under a number of technological conditions. Some observers hold that modern crop production technologies, typified by those embodied in the Green Revolution, are so intensive in the use of external inputs that they damage the environment and so are not sustainable. Those...
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transfers to the rest of the economy, thus providing a powerful argument to raise public expenditure on agriculture to make a …
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