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Author : Aswini Pal
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8170991986
Author : M. S. Swaminathan
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789813200074
The green revolution in India about 50 years ago transformed India's image then as begging bowl to bread basket. This transformation during the 1960s took just about 4 years. The yield increases achieved in wheat and then in rice which occurred in just about half decade is far in excess of the yield increases during the preceding 4000 years. This remarkable feat was achieved with the leadership of the author using the dwarf wheat types which had been produced by Norman Borlaug in Mexico. The research and development of green revolution of wheat and rice at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi was led by the author along with his team of students and co-workers. He has published over 100 papers on green revolution and the ever-green revolution which is a refinement of the former. This book is a compilation of just about 40 of his numerous research papers, monographs and books published by him on this subject. The papers in this book bring out the scientific basis of the modification of the plant type so as to be responsive to exogenous addition of chemical fertilizers and irrigation. The ideal plant type enables capture of adequate sunlight and using the chemical fertilizers added to the soil, produce substantial photosynthetic starch. And because the plants have short and thick culm, they are able to withstand enormous amounts of grains in their ears. This indeed was the basis of breaking the yield barriers associated with native varieties. The book also brings out that green revolution had established the food security at the national level but not at the individual household levels of millions of resource-poor rural small and marginal farming, fishing and landless families. Further green revolution was commodity-centric and the manner of its practice led to environmental degradation and social inequities. This author realized as early as 1972 that system of agriculture in India should be designed to fight both the famines of food and rural livelihoods. In pursuit of it, this author further designed an evergreen revolution with systems approach. What this means is providing concurrent attention to ecological foundations of agriculture and the livelihoods of the rural people. The book also brings out that green revolution was a team effort involving scientists, policy makers, administrators, farmers and students. This book is an outstanding example of green revolution providing a breathing space by putting the cereal grain production rate ahead of the population growth rate and then when food security has been adequately established, the system is changed to achieve productivity in perpetuity without causing environmental and social harm.
Author : Benjamin Robert Siegel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108425964
Independent India's struggle to overcome famine, hunger, and malnutrition, as told through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens alike.
Author : Gilbert Étienne
Publisher : Graduate Institute Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9782940503643
This book presents a unique testimony on the evolution of the Indian peasant's world over more than sixty years. Its originality lies in part in the unique trajectory of its author, Gilbert Étienne, an exceptional man, all at once scientific traveller, thinker of the North/South relationships and economist concerned by sociology and history inputs. In unfolding the story of his passionate relationship with India, the author offers a very personal look which takes into account not only crop diversification and production techniques, but also local anthropological structures and the conditions of the various castes, including the lowest ones. With its approximately 100 pages, the book is sometimes reminiscent of a collection of vignettes and impressions gathered while travelling, such as can be found in field notes. Here lies the strength of this unusual work, especially as the "things-seen" dimension is completed by penetrating reflections on the transformations of an agrarian society discovering modern consumer goods, on a comparison between France in 1946 and India today, and on the causes and consequences of contempt for agriculture in a country whose elites swear by cities, as Christophe Jaffrelot said. This book is the latest publication of Professor Gilbert Etienne, written before his death in May 2014.
Author : Mahesh Rangarajan
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8131708101
Contributed articles presented at a workshop convened at Department of History, Delhi University in September 2005.
Author : Marci Baranski
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822989066
Nominee, 2023 Wallace Award, Agricultural History Society In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug’s complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting global hunger, Borlaug, an American agricultural scientist and plant breeder who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, left a legacy that divides opinions even today. His high-yielding dwarf wheat varieties, known as miracle seeds, effectively doubled and tripled crop yields across the globe, from Kenya to India and Argentina to Mexico due to their wide adaptation. But these modern seeds also required expensive chemical fertilizers and irrigation, both of which were only available to wealthier farmers. Baranski argues that Borlaug’s new technologies ultimately privileged wealthier farmers, despite assurances to politicians that these new crops would thrive in diverse geographies and benefit all farmers. As large-scale monocultures replaced traditional farming practices, these changes were codified into the Indian wheat research system, thus limiting attention to traditional practices and marginal environments. In the shadow of this legacy, and in the face of accelerating climate change, Baranski brings new light to Borlaug’s role in a controversial concept in agricultural science.
Author : B. Venkateswarlu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Green Revolution
ISBN : UCAL:B4430315
Author : Francine R. Frankel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400869022
The success of the agricultural policy adopted in 1965 has given India the hope of escaping from its circle of poverty. At the same time the increased rate of economic development seems to have exacerbated social tensions and accentuated disparities that may eventually undermine the foundations of rural political stability. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Bandhudas Sen
Publisher : New Delhi : Wiley Eastern
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 0852268068
Author : Gary Vocke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : UIUC:30112019031787
Author : Kusum Nair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035605315
Monograph on the behaviour of farmers in the context of the green revolution and its impact on agricultural development in India - narrates interviews with agricultural workers as well as rich and poor farmers in bihar and punjab, outlining the psychological aspects and sociological aspects which oppose rationality in the adoption of new technologys, and indicates the agricultural policy to be followed to overcome them. Bibliography pp. 145 to 152, glossary, map and statistical tables.
Author : Bandhudas Sen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015004198852
Author : Peter B.R. Hazell
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : James W. Halporn,Martin Ostwald,Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0872202437
A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1980. This reliable text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in order that the verse of the Greeks and Romans may be read as poetry.
Author : Shovan Ray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123350212
India's agricultural growth in the twentieth century has been low compared to that in other developing countries. However, there have been some important developments in the agricultural sector in this period. Famines have all but disappeared and there is now a food surplus. The green revolution too increased yield and productivity for certain crops in specific agro-climatic zones. Having said that, a lot still needs to be done. While agricultural growth has contributed to significant decline in poverty, India still remains home to the largest number of poor. Agricultural productivity remains low in much of the rain fed areas where poverty and malnutrition are concentrated. Land productivity is also declining in areas which are over-irrigated. Agricultural growth must be restarted, and the benefits more fairly distributed. This timely handbook reviews key issues in Indian agriculture today. Individual contributors assess: · The state of Indian agriculture in relation to state and central economic policies and their impact on the economic and societal environment · The need to shift focus from green revolution areas to other regions and crops in the context of globalization and even distribution of the benefits achieved · Food security, not only at the national but also at the regional, household, and group levels · Contemporary issues relating to poverty and agricultural subsidies · Emerging issue of the changing agrarian system and rural urban linkages