Alternatives in Industrial Development: Sugarcane Processing in India (Alternatives in Development) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803995660 ISBN 13: 9780803995666

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

This is the first volume in a series of studies sponsored under the Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development. This study analyses the dilemma of increasing inequality of income distribution and reduced opportunities for employment often produced by technological progress. The basis is a case study on the processing of sugarcane in India. The sugar and gur industry is characterized by a large variety of technologies and scales and therefore provides an excellent basis for tracing the process of technological development.

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Review

`a lucid and forceful comparative study... good material for economists... a book that, apart from individuals, all good libraries should possess.' - Financial Express

`This excellent research study... this book contains rich and useful information and serves as valuable reading for those interested in development, industrial and labour economics, and professionals and government officials involved in the sugar and small-scale industries.' - AIRD News

`This book examines,... the viability of traditional and semi-modern techniques of sugar processing, in particular the Open Pan Sulphitation (OPS) process, as an alternative to the large-scale modern or thr Vacuum Pan Sulphitation (VPS) process. This examination is done with such comprehensiveness, details and meticulousness that if one were to look for an ideal researcher, one would find him in the author of this book.' - Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics `The book is an excellent attampt at comparing the large-scale and intermediate scale technologies and particularly presents various policy implications

`This study discusses the dilemma in the context of sugarcane processing in India, an industry characterized by a variety of technologies and hence one that provides an excellent case study for tracing the process of technological development....The main questions are approached from different points of view, historical, techno-economic, socio-economic, and to a lesser degree, socio-political.' - World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803995660
• ISBN 13: 9780803995666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178
• Editor: De Haan H H