Since high-yielding modern rice varieties (MVs) are adopted only in favorable production environments, significant regional productivity differentials have emerged in Nepal. This study explores the distributional consequences of such differential MV adoption based on an intensive survey of...

Books Reviewed include: Production Rights in European Agriculture by Barthelemy, Denis and Jacques David; The Politics of Precaution: Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries by Robert L. Paarlberg; Indian Agriculture: Four Decades of Development by G.S. Bhalla, Gurmail Singh; The...

This paper presents a further modification of linear programming technique which, provides the basis for the calculation of average cost curves. The procedure followed is similar to variable resource programming. Returns are maximized with respect to the output of a particular product as output...