accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food …

This paper seeks to assess the degree to which the modernization objective of the Agriculture and Fisheries … in part by productivity growth and increasing competitiveness of agriculture (i.e., declining cost per unit output …; 2) Accelerate productivity growth in agriculture by R&D and extension; 3) Undertake measures to promote structural …

from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …