Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development: A Study of North India (1961-72) (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Chaudhri, D. P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032172282 ISBN 13: 9781032172286

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

First published in 1979, Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development investigates the effect of education on agricultural productivity and innovations that took place in the wake of the Green Revolution in North India, using a simultaneous equations model. The Green Revolution of the 1960s, with its twin aims of raising production and improving the quality of input, was expected to induce a majority of farming families to respond to policies and programmes devised for bringing about development in agricultural sectors.

Focusing on the wheat-growing areas of Punjab and Haryana, where high yielding varieties of seed have been introduced extensively, it shows that general education up to secondary level has a significant impact on the diffusion of technology and agricultural productivity and that higher production in turn increases the demand for education. This book deserves to be read by all concerned with development in Asian countries; agriculture; developmental economics; and educationists.

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D. P. Chaudhri

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032172282
• ISBN 13: 9781032172286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138