Research and Productivity in Asian Agriculture / Carl E. Pray, Robert E. Evenson.

• VerfasserIn: Evenson, Robert E.,; Pray, Carl E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Ahmed, Zafar,; Binswanger, Hans P.,; Boyce, James K.,; Englander, A. Steven,; Evenson, Robert E.,; Gupta, Devendra,; Judd, M. Ann,; McKinsey, James W.,; Nagy, Joseph G.,; Pray, Carl E.,; Quizon, Jaime,; Salmon, David C.,; Setboonsarng, Suthad,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Food Systems and Agrarian Change
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; General Introduction --; Part I. Institutional Development of Research and Extension Programs --; 1. Investment in Agricultural Research and Extension Programs: A Quantitative Assessment --; 2. The Development of Asian Research Institutions: Underinvestment, Allocation of Resources, and Productivity --; Part II. Agricultural Research and Productivity Change --; 3. Returns from Agricultural Research and Extension in Wheat and Maize in Pakistan --; 4. Research and Agricultural Productivity Growth in Bangladesh --; 5. Rice Productivity and the Returns to Rice Research in Indonesia --; 6. Research, Extension, Infrastructure, and Productivity Change in Indian Agriculture --; Part III. Research, Output Supply, Factor Demand, and Incomes --; 7. Technology, Infrastructure, Output Supply, and Factor Demand in Philippine Agriculture --; 8. Technology, Infrastructure, Output Supply, and Factor Demand in Thai Agriculture --; 9. Technology, Infrastructure, Output Supply, and Factor Demand in North Indian Agriculture --; 10. The Distribution of Income in India's Northern Wheat Region --; 11. Agricultural Technology, Population Growth, Infrastructure, and Real Incomes in North India --; Part IV. International Perspectives on Research and Extension Programming --; 12. International Technology Transfer and Agricultural Productivity --; 13. IARC, NARC and Extension Investment, and Field Crop Productivity: An International Assessment --; 14. lARCs, Aid, and Investment in National Research and Extension Programs --; 15. Research Effectiveness and the Support Base for National and International Agricultural Research and Extension Programs --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501734328
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501734328
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carl E. Pray, Robert E. Evenson.

This book addresses central questions associated with productivity in agriculture: what determines growth in productivity, how have public and private research institutions influenced and altered it, and who gains and who loses as productivity increases?