Rural India Facing the 21st Century, Book 1'Rural India Facing the 21st Century' is a unique study of rural development in South India, concluded over a twenty-year period. Set against the context of international, national and state policies, the book focuses on a wide number of themes, including the stagnation of the 'green revolution', growing differentiation and inequality, the ecological crisis, resistance to reform, corruption and the enduring need for state intervention in rural development. Written by an international team of young scholars under the direction of Dr Harris-White, 'Rural India Facing the 21st Century' draws together a profound analysis of a broad range of issues to provide a masterly overview of overall rural development. Its highly original methodology and findings will be of considerable interest for development policy. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION HEAVY AGRICULTURE AND LIGHT INDUSTRY IN SOUTH INDIAN VILLAGES | 3 |
Seasonality of paddy cultivation 19723 to 19934 | 6 |
Paddy yields kgha 19734 to 19934 by season | 7 |
Paddy and groundnut yields kgha 19734 to 19934 by holding size | 8 |
Electricity consumption per electric well in Tamil Nadu | 10 |
Assets by village Rs 1993 | 12 |
Size distributions of land ownership acres | 14 |
Changes in distribution of land ownership | 15 |
19734 to 19934 | 39 |
Asset holding in the three villages | 41 |
Appendix 1 | 47 |
Census households classified by village and cluster 2 Sampled households by village and cluster | 50 |
Weights for sample 35 36 | 51 |
37 | 52 |
41 | 58 |
50 | 70 |
Average land area owned by quartile of landed households ha | 16 |
Land classification acres | 17 |
HYVs of rice and groundnuts recommended for northern Tamil Nadu | 19 |
Weighted mean paddy yields kgha 19934 by villages seasons and generations of HYVs | 20 |
Cropping patterns by farm size group ha 14 Land use three villages 19934 | 21 |
Average cropped area yield and production of paddy and groundnuts by farm size group | 23 |
Costs and returns from HYV paddy 19734 prices | 25 |
labour inputs and costs per ha 19934 | 26 |
Average agrochemicals inputs and costs per ha 19934 | 28 |
Paddy production costs and marketed surplus 869 7 8 | 30 |
10 | 31 |
w w w w x X | 32 |
Real casual wage rates by gender and village 197393 | 35 |
Income expenditure and poverty 19934 | 36 |
Wageprice relations for agricultural labour in the three villages | 37 |
Yield of paddy in the study villages 19934 | 74 |
Population from survey and census | 83 |
Cropping pattern in the study villages area in acres | 93 |
Changes in wages paid in kind | 102 |
Distribution of assets in the North Arcot villages recensus | 108 |
NonFarm Economy | 175 |
PRODUCTION POLICY AND PILLAGE PERSPECTIVES | 195 |
Details of Class Probability Tree Analysis | 324 |
Nutrition Data 19734 to 19824 | 397 |
The Public Distribution Scheme PDS | 405 |
the Villages | 429 |
Notes | 467 |
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