Rapporteur's Report on Role of Technology, Institutions and Irrigation in Agricultural Development

The Subject II deals with three sub-themes Role of Technology, Institutions and Irrigation in Agricultural Development and hence it is crucial to consider the research contributions in the three distinct fields. Considering the first sub-theme, the role of technology, articles were expected to focus...

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Published inThe Indian journal of agricultural economics Vol. 70; no. 3; pp. 454 - 469
Main Author Chandrakanth, M G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bombay Indian Society of Agricultural Economics 01.07.2015
Subjects
Agricultural production
Agriculture
Canals
Cost control
Crops
Farmers
Groundwater
India
Irrigation
Linear programming
Probability
Productivity
Rice
Technology adoption
Wheat
India
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Summary:The Subject II deals with three sub-themes Role of Technology, Institutions and Irrigation in Agricultural Development and hence it is crucial to consider the research contributions in the three distinct fields. Considering the first sub-theme, the role of technology, articles were expected to focus on sub-optimal performance of technologies; economic reasons and implications of slow/sluggish performance of agricultural technologies, plateauing of productivities; reasons and solutions for declining contribution of research, extension, irrigation to total factor productivity over time in different agro-climatic regions, economic implications on livelihood and economic security; innovative approaches for quantification of technological contributions in NARS incorporating depreciation of technology, probability of performance and rate of adoption of technology in the field. In all, 31 papers were received covering the three sub theses in Subject II, of which six papers are accepted for full presentation and 18 papers are accepted in summary form.
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ISSN:0019-5014