Changes in dry land agriculture in the semi-arid tropics of India, 1975-2004.
This paper examines the changes in dry land agriculture between 1975 and 2004, drawing both from macro-level data as well as the Village Level Studies (VLS) data of ICRISAT from six villages in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. The long-term panel data facilitate an in-depth analysis of cropping patte...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Development Research Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 562 - 579 |
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Dec2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=35656934&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 35656934 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 09578811 6ZM jtl: European Journal of Development Research issn: 09578811 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2008 vid: 20 iid: 4 pid: 13817 pub: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. artinfo: ui: 35656934 10.1080/09578810802469366 ppf: 562 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 103KB tig: atl: Changes in dry land agriculture in the semi-arid tropics of India, 1975-2004. aug: au: Rao, K. P. C. affil: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Andhra Pradesh, India su: Agriculture Villages Arid regions Poverty Farmers India sug: subj: India Agriculture Villages Arid regions Poverty Farmers keyword: changes in cropping patterns dry land agriculture semi-arid tropics village level studies ab: This paper examines the changes in dry land agriculture between 1975 and 2004, drawing both from macro-level data as well as the Village Level Studies (VLS) data of ICRISAT from six villages in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. The long-term panel data facilitate an in-depth analysis of cropping patterns, productivity levels, costs and returns of crop enterprises over time. The contrasting findings about increasing asset prices and declining returns to land and management puzzle the analysts. Equally implausible are the non-viability of agricultural enterprises on one hand and increasing incomes and living standards of the farm house holds on the other. Yet the SAT areas record highest incidence of poverty among the different agro-climatic regions of India. There is a clear dividing line between dry land agriculture and irrigated agriculture in terms of productivity levels, viability, indebtedness and poverty incidence. The government has come out with relief packages for farmers and employment guarantee programmes for the agricultural labourers in these areas. Besides such temporary palliatives, long-term policy biases which caused them need to be set right to make dry land agriculture in the SAT areas viable and competitive. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of European Journal of Development Research is the property of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: European Journal of Development Research holder: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. dt: @attributes: year: 2008 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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