Green Revolution?

Technology and Change in Rice-growing Areas of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka

  • B. H. Farmer
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Part of the Cambridge Commonwealth Series book series (CAMCOM)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Technology and Change in Rice-growing Areas
    B. H. Farmer
    Pages 1-6
  3. Setting the Stage
    B. H. Farmer, C. M. Madduma Bandara, V. Shanmuga Sundaram, W. P. T. Silva
    Pages 7-19
  4. Paddy and Rice Statistics in Sri Lanka
    Barbara Harriss
    Pages 20-29
  5. Bias in Perception of Agrarian Change in India
    John Harriss
    Pages 30-36
  6. Research Methodology
    Robert Chambers, B. Nanjamma Chinnappa, Barbara Harriss, B. W. E. Wickremanayake
    Pages 37-53
  7. Selective Adoption as a Strategy for Agricultural Development: Lessons from Adoption in S.E. Sri Lanka
    H. D. Dias
    Pages 54-84
  8. Chena-Paddy Interrelationships
    W. P. T. Silva
    Pages 85-91
  9. Adoption of the New Technology in North Arcot District
    B. Nanjamma Chinnappa
    Pages 92-123
  10. The Limitations of HYV Technology in North Arcot District: the View from a Village
    John Harriss
    Pages 124-142
  11. Pahalagama: a Case Study of Agricultural Change in a Frontier Environment
    John Harriss
    Pages 143-154
  12. Agricultural Extension: Myth, Reality and Challenge
    Robert Chambers, B. W. E. Wickremanayake
    Pages 155-167
  13. Tractors, Profits and Debt in Hambantota District, Sri Lanka
    Barbara Harriss
    Pages 168-181
  14. Rural Electrification and the Diffusion of Electric Water-Lifting Technology in North Arcot District, India
    Barbara Harriss
    Pages 182-203
  15. Impact of the Cultivation of High-Yielding Varieties of Paddy on Income and Employment
    B. Nanjamma Chinnappa, W. P. T. Silva
    Pages 204-224
  16. Implications of Changes in Agriculture for Social Relationships at the Village Level: the Case of Randam
    John Harriss
    Pages 225-245
  17. Social Implications of Changes in Agriculture in Hambantota District
    John Harriss
    Pages 246-255
  18. Marketing Scarce Chemical Inputs: an International Comparison
    Barbara Harriss
    Pages 256-267
  19. Besieging the Free Market: the Effects of the Paddy-Rice Levy
    Barbara Harriss
    Pages 268-275
  20. Paddy-Milling: Problems in Policy and the Choice of Technology
    Barbara Harriss
    Pages 276-300

About this book

Keywords

Area revolution technology

Editors and affiliations

  • B. H. Farmer
    • 1
  1. 1.Centre of South Asian StudiesUniversity of CambridgeUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02965-5
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1980
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Business & Management Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-02967-9
  • Online ISBN 978-1-349-02965-5
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