(1981). Employment status in agriculture: A comparative analysis in India. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 297-310.

Employment status in agriculture: A comparative analysis in India

Economic Development in Asian Perspective.

On the Productivity Criterion of Unemployment in Poor Agrarian Economies

Economic development in Asian perspective.

TRACTORIZATION of agriculture in low-wage countries has been the center of one of the most virulent and emotional choice-of-techniques debate for the past 20 years. It is therefore not surprising that, apart f r o m spawning large quantities of theoretical -conceptual literature and a massive amount of partisan writing , it has also led to a very substantial amount of careful empirical work at the micro- and macro levels. In particular , there are now available a large number of farm-level tractor surveys from practically every agroclimatic zone in the Indian subcontinent. However, many of these surveys are not easily accessible (masters and Ph.D. theses) or not easily comparable. The main effort of this paper is to assemble the studies and present their findings in a way which makes them comparable across agroclimatic zones. Whatever merit this summary may have thus goes in large part to the patient (and sometimes unrewarding) effort of the many researchers who assembled the basic facts initially. Of course, they cannot be held responsible for mistakes or misinterpretations which might have occurred in the summarization process.

The economics of tractors in South Asia

Production Conditions in Indian Agriculture.

﻿its demographic compulsions and democratic commitment can ill afford to turn away from social justice and equality and thrust for freedom. And for that very reason it is not possible on the one hand to pursue a policy of "let the hounds run", under which the private enterprise can dictate the course of economic development, and on the other hand, to permit the existing state apparatus, with its insensitive bureaucracy and power and patronage-prone politicians, to have a stranglehold over the economic system. Social justice can be guaranteed when State intervention is on a scale which is small enough to checkmate the concentration of power; economic efficiency, freedom and growth can be ensured if the units in the economy, while animated by social conscience, can compete with each other. It is just this balance which is likely to be attained if India could have numerous small states with better communication with the people in each state. If it is a communist or a socialist ideology it will have its full sway in a smaller unit; if it is the free enterprise approach, it may be experimented within a small area. If any of the alternative succeeds, it would then affect other states, without the failure of any one of them doing irreparable and irreversible damage. Social purposiveness can. then be dovetailed with the imperatives of economic efficiency and democratic commitment.

Employment status in agriculture: A comparative analysis in India

Citations

Economic Development in Asian Perspective.

On the Productivity Criterion of Unemployment in Poor Agrarian Economies

References

Economic development in Asian perspective.

Economic Development in Asian Perspective.

The economics of tractors in South Asia

Production Conditions in Indian Agriculture.

Rural Employment, Wages and Labour Markets in India-A Survey of Research

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