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Agrarian development family farms and sugar capital in colonial Taiwan 1895-1945
(2022-02-23) Ka, Chih-ming
This article analyses the conservation and restructuring of the Taiwanese family farms in the course of capitalist and colonial incorporation of Japanese private capital at the outset of colonial rule a congruence of interest between indigenous peasant producers and the colonial state resulted in policies that fostered the survival of family farms.These family farms constituted a formidable obstacle to the expansion of a labour-hiring capitalist agriculture.Under such conditions Japanese capital pursued vertial concentration resting on a highly productive family farming agriculture.
Agrarian Entrepreneurialism In Bangaladesh
(2022-02-25) D.Wood, Geoffrey
Under the fragmented landholding conditions of Bangladesh peasant agriculture, will the increasing capitalisation of agriculture transform the units of production away from the family based farm in to a system to vertically and horizontally integrated "agricultural companies"?. This suggests a particular interaction in which organization of production is disarticulated and re-articulated in a manner which reduces the significance of landholding in the realisation of agricultural surplusrealisation is silting towards investing in productivity and agricultural services away from rent and usury extraction in response to the intrusion of capital and assault on state momopolies on the one hand and to demographic pressures to use land more intensively on the other. The puper then asks:how far expansion of agriculture services activities takes the loam of interlocked markets in which the control over the productivity/ parasatic options for land use shifts from poorly networked owners towards a new entrepreneunal class of well-connected dealers and contractors.The related policy issue is whether the poor can be assisted to enter these new markets
Agricultural Contractors: Some survey findings.
(2022-02-10) Ball, R.M
Agricultural contractors are known to be an important part of the British farming scene. However the precise task involved the characteristics of users of contractors, and the implications for the agricultural labour market and for the rural areas involved are barely documented. In this paper a review of the use of agricultural contractors is followed by a discussion of some research findings on the subject drawn from a farm survey conducted in North Wales and South Wales Midlands.
Agricultural diversification and the decline of wheat : a comparative study of east anglia, California and central Victoria,1850-1910
(1994-10) Frost, Warwick
During the second half of the nineteenth century the world wheat crop expanded dramatically however in come rcgiono wheat growing declined and farmers turned to other activities. This paper examines why these changes occurred in three regions East Anglia California and Central Victoria. Were they just due to falling prices or were other factors significant?
Agricultural diversification in South Asia: patterns, determinants and policy implications
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2021-05-18) Joshi, P. K.; Gulati, Ashok; Birthal, Prathap S.; Tewari, Laxmi
South Asian countries are gradually diversifying with some inter-country variation in favor of high-value commodities, namely fruits, vegetables, livestock and fisheries. Agricultural diversification is strongly influenced by price policy, infrastructure development (especially markets and roads). Urbanization and technological improvements. Rainfed areas have benefited more as a result o agricultural diversification in favour of high-value crops by substituting inferior coarse cereals.
Agricultural processing and the WA economy : A general equilibrium analysis
(2022-01-20) Johnson, Peter; Islam, Nazrul
This paper investigates the impact of an expansion in agricultural processing on the westen Australian economy by modifying and applying a computable general equilibrium (CGE) economics modle of westen Australion called (WAM). WAM was used to simulate the effects of SI million expansion in eight agriculture processing industries.The results show that there is arange of positive impacts from agricultural processing on average a SI million expansion in agricultural processing is estimated to increase the states GSP (Gorss State Product) by $ 649.000 and total output by $ 1.9 million. The expansion of the wine and spirits industry is estimated to have the largest impact while the textile fibers, yams and woven fabrics industry has the smallest impact on the western Australion economy
Agricultural productivity considerations of the land reform law of 1972
(2022-03-09) Sanderatne, Nimal
The land reform law of 1972 was the first attempt to alter the land tenute structure of Sri Lanka by a significant redistribution of privately owned agricultural land.
Agricultural sector adjustment lending and agricultural policy
(1989-03) Knudsen, Odin; Nash, John
Both in terms of employment and value added agriculture is one of the most important sectors in most developing economies, especially the poorest. In the early to mid twentieth century, governmental policy toward this sector was frequently characterized by benign neglect.In this at mosphere.complemented by overall macroeconomic stability, agriculture led many countries in to relative properity. based on natural comparative advantage and export-led growth.
Agricultural tariffs or subsidies: Wich are more important for developing economies?
(2022-02-02) Hoekman, Bernard; Ng, Francis; Olarreaga, Marcelo
This article assesses the impact of the world price-depressing effect of agricultural subsidies and border protection in OECD countries on developing economies exports,imports and welfarw.Developing economy exporters are likely to benefit from reductions in such subsidies and trade barriers whereas net importers may lose as world prices rise. A simple partial equilibrium modle of global trade in commodities that benifit from dimestic supportor export subsidies is developed to estimate the relevant elasticities. Simulation results suggest that a 50 percent reduction in border protection will have a mush larger positive impact on developing economies exports and welfare than a 50 percent reduction in agricultural subsidies.
Agricultural transformation and changing labour relations: Implications for peasant women in Sri Lanka
(1989-01) Rajapakse, Darshini Anna
Irrigation development and government sponsored peasant resettlement have been central features of agricultural development in the arid North-central province of Sri Lanka since the first half of this century.Settlement policy has however received fresh impetus in the past decade with the application of new technologies both biochemical and mechanical under the government's crop diversification programme wich has been initiated under the accelerated Mahaweli Development programme (AMDP) with aid from UNDP, WEP, the world Bank ADB OPES countries USAID the wetherlands, UK and Japan.
Agriculture baggage: European and chinese migrants and farming in nineteenth century california and victoria
(1992-07) Frost, Warwick
Thomas Edison once noted that most of the important inventions and innovations in the USA had been the work of immigrants rather than of native-born Americans. According to the demographer julian simon the most important effect of immigrants is their contribution to out stock of useful knowledge.The theme of migrants carrying specialist skills and knowledge as part of their invisible culture baggage is a common one in studies of economic development.
Agriculture links to nonagricultural growth: Urbanization, employment poverty
(2022-02-15) Mellor, W Joeln
It is a particular pleasure to give the distinguished lecture on the occasion of the meeting of the Pakistan society of development economists.Pakistan is a country that has done well in economic development.It has built solidly on a base of success in its agricultural sector.Agriculture has played its role of stimulating the nonagricultural sector with a conscqucntly vigorous small and medium-scale nonagricultural sector adisbursed pattern of urbanization and growth in employment sufficient to allo gradual diminution in the incidence of rural poverty.
Agriculture mechanisation and land tenure
(2022-02-24) Grabowski, Richard
It is argued in this article that the meaning or bias of any particular package of new techniques is dependent upon the social structure with in which the new technology is applied.Thus in certain structures high-yielding technologies increase the demand for small frames and lower relative food prices.In other social structures the poverty-reducing impact of such a technology is significantly blunted with in this context the theory of induced technical innovation seems to lose much of its meaning
Applying agricultural household theroy to the analysis of income and employment : A perliminary study for rural JAVA
(University Of Wollongone, 1991-10) Sawit, M Husein; O Brien, T, Dennis
Most studies of farm household in Indonesia have viewed the household either as a consumer or as a producer rarely has an attempt been made to integrate the production and consumption decisions of a household.This paper presents a preliminary analysis that combines the production and consumption roles of rural household. The analysis is based on the theoretical framework development by lau, lin and yotopoulos (1978) and bamum and squire (1979,1979).The profit function model is used to test the profit maximizing behaviour of the farm household and the LIES model is development to test household untility maximization.The interaction between production and consumption is then derived. The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of alternative rice pricing policies on farm household labour allocation supply response production and marketable surplus of rice
Australia's wet frontier: The agricultural development of the heavy forests of the atherton tableland, king island and the otway ranges,1880-1920
(1993-05) Frost, Warwick
The method generally adopted was tofell all green scrub with a diameter of up to tweive inches during the spring:when the foliage of cut scrub had dried by the end of summer this was set alight. A fierce fire swept the area completely destroying the undergrowth and much of the heavy dry rimber. grass and clover seed was sown immediately in the ash. wich was inches deep in parts. providing a wonderful seed bed: after rain a phenomenal growth ensured
Awareness and adoption of farmer's pension and social security benefit scheme in Sri Lanka
(2022) Sivayoganathan, C; Pirahalathan, A.S
The need for social security benefit scheme for the farming community emerged from time to time and consequently the farmers pension and social security benefit scheme was launched by the government. The purpose of this study was to examine farmers awareness and adoption of this scheme.The data were collected from a random sample of 70 farmers from Kandy by personal interviews using a questionnaire.
Betel Leaves trade in Pakistan
(2022-02-10)
The Betel leaves trade in Pakistan holds a unique position as it is the only country importing this commodity in a sizeable quantity. Before the separation of last Pakistan from west Pakistan, betel leaves were grown in east Pakistan and were transported to western sector. After the fall of East Eakistan from their leaders from other countries.
BRAC's vegetables export : a strategy for farmer development
(BRAC, 2002-07)
In a successful rural development process an essential component is the transformation from low productivity subsistence agriculture to high productivity value-added commercial agriculture export led value-added crop production can accelerate the development of this process it is encouraging that all vegetables have favorable financial returns, approximately more than twice to high yielding variety (HYV) common rice and some other crops.
Cenwor Profile
(Cenwor publication, 1995)
The centre for women's research is a non-governmental institution established in 1984 by a few women academics and professionals with experience in women's studies and programmes
Civil society statement on food security
(2022-03-09)
We the participants of the South Asian civil society forum on responding to food insecurity in South Asia heal in Kathmandu on 23-24 October 2008, view that the triple 'F' Globle crises-fuel food and financial have- been affecting the globle economy as well as posing a range of complex challenges for South Asian countries i the achievement of the millennium development goals including the goal of halving the number of poor hungry people and the "SAARC" development goals

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