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The Green Revolution in Zimbabwe
Alumira, Jane; Rusike, Joseph - In: eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and … 02 (2005) 1
This paper presents a historical overview of plant breeding research, variety release and seed supply of staple food grains in Zimbabwe, and assesses the impacts of the new varieties on yields using national aggregate yield data. The paper also analyses farm-level factors determining...
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The Green Revolution in Zimbabwe
Alumira, Jane; Rusike, Joseph - In: The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development … 2 (2005) 1, pp. 50-66
This paper presents a historical overview of plant breeding research, variety release and seed supply of staple food grains in Zimbabwe, and assesses the impacts of the new varieties on yields using national aggregate yield data. The paper also analyses farm-level factors determining farmers’...
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Government success, failure of the market: a case study of rural India
Basu, Santonu - In: International Review of Applied Economics 23 (2009) 4, pp. 485-501
Contrary to current thinking, in this paper we argue that a careful examination of government intervention suggests that governments did not fail in all their interventions. For example, in terms of achieving self-sufficiency in food requirements, Indian government intervention was highly...
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Migration and technological change in agriculture : results of a case study in the green revolution belt of India
Oberai, A. S; Singh, Manmohan; K, H. - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1981
production, presenting a case study of the green revolution belt in India - based on a survey, examines adoption of capital …
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The Green Revolution: The Untold Process of its Success
Banerjee, Rupsha - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2013
important role in shaping social relations. This paper examines the Green Revolution that took place in India during the late …
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Chronic Poverty in South West Madhya Pradesh: A Multidimensional Analysis of its Extent and Causes
Shah, Amita; Sah, D.C. - eSocialSciences - 2011
The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time … in India are also chronically poor in terms of duration as well as severity (Mehta and Shah, 2002). Economic growth … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …
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Has Green Revolution Bypassed Coarse Cereals? The Indian Experience
Janaiah, Aldas; Achoth, Lalith; Bantilan, Ma Cynthia S. - In: eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and … 02 (2005) 1
) growth for the selected coarse cereals viz., maize, sorghum and pearl millet in India. The analysis indicates that the TFP …
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Comparative assessment of pollution by the use of industrial agricultural fertilizers in four rapidly developing Asian countries
Novotny, Vladimir; Wang, Xiaoyan; Englande, Andrew; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 12 (2010) 4, pp. 491-509
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Agricultural growth and rural industry : some reflections on the rural growth linkages debate
Dunham, Dunham, D.M. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1991
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Green revolution: Indian agricultural experience – a paradigm for Eritrea
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Food problem became more severe after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, presenting a series challenges to … India’s agricultural sector. Even during good harvest years, food imports remain high. A large segment of people were poor …. To mitigate these problems, India adopted farming strategies under the “Green Revolution” in the mid 1960s. The …
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