Research and Productivity in Asian Agriculture /

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

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?

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 10 graphs and charts
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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

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