Research and Productivity in Asian Agriculture / / Carl E. Pray, Robert E. Evenson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Evenson, Robert E.,; Pray, Carl E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Ahmed, Zafar,; Binswanger, Hans P.,; Boyce, James K.,; Englander, A. Steven,; Evenson, Robert E.,; Gupta, Devendra,; Judd, M. Ann,; McKinsey, James W.,; Nagy, Joseph G.,; Pray, Carl E.,; Quizon, Jaime,; Salmon, David C.,; Setboonsarng, Suthad,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Food Systems and Agrarian Change
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 10 graphs and charts

This book addresses central questions associated with productivity in agriculture: what determines growth in productivity, how have public and private research institutions influenced and altered it, and who gains and who loses as productivity increases?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Part I. Institutional Development of Research and Extension Programs -- 1. Investment in Agricultural Research and Extension Programs: A Quantitative Assessment -- 2. The Development of Asian Research Institutions: Underinvestment, Allocation of Resources, and Productivity -- Part II. Agricultural Research and Productivity Change -- 3. Returns from Agricultural Research and Extension in Wheat and Maize in Pakistan -- 4. Research and Agricultural Productivity Growth in Bangladesh -- 5. Rice Productivity and the Returns to Rice Research in Indonesia -- 6. Research, Extension, Infrastructure, and Productivity Change in Indian Agriculture -- Part III. Research, Output Supply, Factor Demand, and Incomes -- 7. Technology, Infrastructure, Output Supply, and Factor Demand in Philippine Agriculture -- 8. Technology, Infrastructure, Output Supply, and Factor Demand in Thai Agriculture -- 9. Technology, Infrastructure, Output Supply, and Factor Demand in North Indian Agriculture -- 10. The Distribution of Income in India’s Northern Wheat Region -- 11. Agricultural Technology, Population Growth, Infrastructure, and Real Incomes in North India -- Part IV. International Perspectives on Research and Extension Programming -- 12. International Technology Transfer and Agricultural Productivity -- 13. IARC, NARC and Extension Investment, and Field Crop Productivity: An International Assessment -- 14. lARCs, Aid, and Investment in National Research and Extension Programs -- 15. Research Effectiveness and the Support Base for National and International Agricultural Research and Extension Programs -- Index