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Showing papers by "International Food Policy Research Institute published in 1978"


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TL;DR: The authors showed that although United States producers and consumers taken together benefit from policies which would stabilize feed grain prices, this is likely not the case for wheat, since the desirability of price stabilization largely depends on the source of instability (i.e., whether instability is generated abroad or is created internally).
Abstract: This empirical study demonstrates that, although United States producers and consumers taken together benefit from policies which would stabilize feed grain prices, this is likely not the case for wheat. The model specifies a U.S. domestic demand relationship for food and feed use, a stock relationship and a foreign demand sector; these are estimated by ordinary and two-stage least squares methods. The key to the analysis is in testing a well-known theoretical model in which the desirability of price stabilization largely depends on the source of instability (i.e., whether instability is generated abroad or is created internally).

25 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of farm tractorisation on output and human labour employment on Punjab farms in India were investigated and the results seem to suggest that the use of tractors has resulted in higher output and more employment.
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to determine the effects of farm tractorisation on output and human labour employment on Punjab farms in India. The residts seem to suggest that, this far, the use of tractors has resulted in higher output and more employment. The authors believe that the threat from farm tractorisation is not all that great; the use of tractors is likely to be confined to certain areas only, and there too, any displacement of labour should be possible to control through appropriate public policies.

15 citations



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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed India's performance in terms of the achievement of self-sufficiency on the basis of past trends in food grains production and consumption, and reviewed the proposals for development under the new draft five year plan 1978-83 with a view to evaluate the prospects for achieving continued selfsufficiency.
Abstract: Achievement of self-sufficiency in food grains has been one of the principal objectives of economic development in India.1 Though government-sponsored efforts for increasing production of food grains started under the Grow More Food Campaign in 1943, to meet the shortage of food caused by the stoppage of imports of rice from Burma, self-sufficiency as an objective of food production policy was announced for the first time towards the end of 1948. This objective was hoped to be achieved by March 1952. Over the last three decades, India has imported nearly 120 million tons of cereals, the imports in a single year reaching as high as 10.36 million tons in 1966. While there were substantial annual fluctuations, some quantities were imported in all the years except 1972 when there was a net export of about half a million tons. After three good crop years (1975-76 to 1977-78), there would be no net imports during the current year. The year 1978 opened with a food grain stock of about 17.4 million tons and the production is expected to exceed 125 million tons. The bumper production is also expected to be reflected in record procurement. The question whether India will continue to be self-sufficient assumes great significance because the entry of India as a large buyer will have a major influence on the international market and will have large implications for the world food situation. This paper analyzes India's performance in terms of the achievement of self-sufficiency on the basis of past trends in food grains production and consumption, and reviews the proposals for development under the new draft five year plan 1978-83 with a view to evaluate the prospects for achieving continued selfsufficiency.

5 citations



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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of direct government production in agriculture in Ghana, both during the period 1962-1966 when it was a high agricultural priority, and during 1967-1975 when the government tried to withdraw

4 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, an analytical model is proposed to simulate the transfer of population from the traditional to the modern sector as economic conditions improve and enable the consequences of such a transformation on wood consumption to be traced through time.

2 citations