Instability in Indian Agriculture in the Context of the New Technology

Download or read book Instability in Indian Agriculture in the Context of the New Technology written by Shakuntla Mehra and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract: This report analyzes the processes that might result in more or less instability of yields for individual crops; for the same crop produced in different regions and in different seasons in the same region; for foodgrains generally in different regions of the country; or for farms of different sizes. Because the new crop technology has made an important contribution to the growth of yields per hectare, and because the new technology itself has made the greatest headway in irrigated areas, the obvious question is: has seed-fertilizer technology increased yield variability, and, if so, has this added variability been confined only to unirrigated areas?