Author: Satadal Dasgupta
Publisher: Calcutta : Editions Indian
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Comparative study of two villages in Uttar Pradesh.

Author: Pratyusha Basu
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 160497625X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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India's cooperative dairying program is widely celebrated as an example of successful rural development, yet the meanings of this success have been understood mainly through the pronouncements of national and international development agencies. Within such official narratives, there has been relatively little engagement with the geographies of dairy development, both its place-specific productions through political contests, availabilities of labor, and distributions of agricultural resources, and the unevenness of its outcomes across rural India. This absence is even more surprising given that village-level cooperatives comprise the foundation of India's dairy development program, and the work of women within rural households is continuously invoked as an integral part of the dairy work. This book extends and enriches current understandings of cooperative dairying in India to show both its value to rural communities as well as the limitations of its participatory structures. Combining comparative and ethnographic approaches, explanations for the diverse outcomes of cooperative dairying are provided from the perspective of the people and places directly involved in the everyday reproductions of rural development. This book contributes to existing understandings of rural development and rural geographies in four significant ways. First, by following histories of development from their local origins to their national and international appearances, the global genealogies that are usually attached to development are rendered more complex. Second, by connecting cooperatives to place, the ways in which participation in development reflects local struggles for power and, hence, are structured through local inequalities, is revealed. Third, by linking dairying and agriculture, the continuing importance of resource distributions in shaping the outcomes of rural development is highlighted. Finally, the crucial role of household divisions of labor in the success of village dairy cooperatives is explicated through showing how struggles over the meanings of rural women's work become key to enabling household-level participation in dairying. This book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, including geography, sociology, anthropology, rural studies, development studies, gender studies, and regional studies of India.

Author: Y.P. Singh (ed.)
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180693212
Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Papers presented at the National Workshop on Voluntary Action for Self-reliant Village : Vision India 2020.

Author: Gilbert Étienne
Publisher: Graduate Institute Publications
ISBN: 2940503648
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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This book presents a unique testimony on the evolution of the Indian peasant's world over more than sixty years. Its originality lies in part in the unique trajectory of its author, Gilbert Étienne, an exceptional man, all at once scientific traveller, thinker of the North/South relationships and economist concerned by sociology and history inputs. In unfolding the story of his passionate relationship with India, the author offers a very personal look which takes into account not only crop diversification and production techniques, but also local anthropological structures and the conditions of the various castes, including the lowest ones. With its approximately 100 pages, the book is sometimes reminiscent of a collection of vignettes and impressions gathered while travelling, such as can be found in field notes. Here lies the strength of this unusual work, especially as the "things-seen" dimension is completed by penetrating reflections on the transformations of an agrarian society discovering modern consumer goods, on a comparison between France in 1946 and India today, and on the causes and consequences of contempt for agriculture in a country whose elites swear by cities, as Christophe Jaffrelot said. This book is the latest publication of Professor Gilbert Etienne, written before his death in May 2014.

Author: Dharam Das Vishwakarma
Publisher: Northern Book Centre
ISBN: 9788172111489
Category : Agricultural geography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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It embodies ecological determinants about agricultural relevance, demographic variables relevant to diffusion and adoption of agricultural innovation, land use pattern, determinants of agricultural innovations, status of irrigation-the base of yield raising technology, use of high yielding variety of seeds, adoption of soil fertility measures, financing system, mechanical technology and agricultural productivity and finally the levels of adoption. Analyses the spatio-temporal, inter-societal and intra-societal variation in the adoption of agricultural development measures has been the thrust objective of this book. Salient Features - Analyses the ecological parameters, cultural background and operational infrastructure of the plateau as the major determinants of agricultural land use and adoption of agricultural development measures. - Evaluates the spatial and temporal variation in the use of agricultural development measures. - Establishes relationship between each of personal-social and economic characteristics of adopters and the extent of adoption of each of selected agricultural innovation. - Determines spatial, inter-societal and intra-societal variation in level of adoption in perspectives of above determinants. - Evaluates the impact of the components of innovations on agricultural productivity. Useful for agricultural geographers, rural development planners and executors, irrigation engineers as well as scholars of rural habitat transformation. Also, this is well befitting the syllabi of universities for post-graduate classes and highly responsive to researchers.

Author: Satadal Dasgupta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Technical Assistance
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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