Green revolution? : technology and change in rice-growing areas of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka /: technology and change in rice-growing areas of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by B.H. Farmer ; foreword by Sir Joseph Hutchinson.
• Editors: Farmer, B. H (Bertram Hughes)
• Contents: List of Figures -- Foreword by Sir Joseph Hutchinson -- Editor's preface -- Glossary -- 1 Technology and Change in Rice-growing Areas / B. H. Farmer -- 2 Setting the Stage / B. H. Farmer, C. M. Madduma Bandara, V. Shanmuga Sundaram and W. P. T. Silva -- 3 Paddy and Rice Statistics in Sri Lanka / Barbara Harriss -- 4 Bias in Perception of Agrarian Change in India / John Harriss -- 5 Research Methodology / Robert Chambers, B. Nanjamma Chinnappa, Barbara Harriss and B. W. E. Wickremanayake -- 6 Selective Adoption as a Strategy for Agricultural Develop-ment: Lessons from Adoption in S.E. Sri Lanka / H. D. Dias -- 7 Chena-Paddy Interrelationships / W. P. T. Silva -- 8 Adoption of the New Technology in North Arcot District / B. Nanjamma Chinnappa -- 9 The Limitations of HYV Technology in North Arcot District: the View from a Village / John Harriss -- 10 Pahalagama: a Case Study of Agricultural Change in a Frontier Environment / John Harriss -- 11 Agricultural Extension: Myth, Reality and Challenge / Robert Chambers and B. W. E. Wickremanayake -- 12 Tractors, Profit and Debt in Hambantota District, Sri Lanka / Barbara Harriss -- 13 Rural Electrification and the Diffusion of Electric Water-lifting Technology in North Arcot District, India / Barbara Harriss -- 14 Impact of the Cultivation of High-Yielding Varieties of Paddy on Employment and Income / B. Nanjamma Chinnappa and W. P. T. Silva -- 15 Implications of Changes in Agriculture for Social Re-lationships at the Village Level: the Case of Randam / John Harriss -- 16 Social Implications of Changes in Agriculture in Hamban-tota District / John Harriss -- 17 Marketing Scarce Chemical Inputs: an International Comparison / Barbara Harriss -- 18 Besieging the Free Market: the Effects of the Paddy-Rice / Levy Barbara Harriss -- 19 Paddy-Milling: Problems in Policy and the Choice of Technology / Barbara Harriss -- 20 Comparing Twelve South Indian Villages: in Search of Practical Theory / Robert Chambers and John Harriss -- 21 Hydrological Consequences of Agrarian Change C. M. Madduma Bandara -- 22 Men and Water: the Organisation and Operation of Irrigation Robert Chambers -- 23 Problems of Water Management in Hambantota District / John Harriss -- 24 The Crisis and the Future Robert Chambers / H. D. Dias, Barbara Harriss and John Harriss -- 25 Challenges for Rural Research and Development / Robert Chambers -- 26 Perceptions, Technology and the Future / Robert Chambers and B. H. Farmer -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 633.18; Rice -- India -- Tamil Nadu; Rice -- Sri Lanka; Green Revolution -- India -- Tamil Nadu; Green Revolution -- Sri Lanka; Green Revolution; Rice; India -- Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429051746; 0429051743; 9780429708091; 0429708092; 9780429748110; 0429748116; 9780429728105; 0429728107
• Related ISBNs: 9780367021887
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 25, 2019).
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