Rice and wheat are India’s staple cereal crops. Regional disparity in their respective yields makes for regional variation in the relative suitability to rice cultivation. The labor requirements of rice cultivation being much higher than that of wheat cultivation, women have traditionally...

Rice and wheat are India's staple cereal crops and there is significant regional variation in the suitability to the cultivation of each. Both are so-called 'plough-positive' crops, whose cultivation is benefited by ploughing. It has previously been argued that the ancient adoption of the...