Agriculture in Chains: Bangladesh : a Case Study in Contradictions and ConstraintsMonograph presenting a case study of obstacles to food production efficiency in Bangladesh, constituting an evaluation of development potential - analyses extent of poverty, landlessness and rural area unemployment, describes how bias towards urban development, foreign investment, faulty industrial policy and agricultural policy, etc. Have led to needless hunger, and concludes that only fundamental social change, esp. Curtailing the power of the ruling class, landowners and bureaucracy, can overcome these problems. Bibliography. |
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Introduction 11234 | 1 |
Development Potential | 15 |
The Urban Bias | 25 |
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A.R. Khan Agricultural Mission agricultural production Anisur Rahman areas Bangla benefits big farmers capital capital-intensive Chapter Chittagong Chittagong University co-operatives Comilla District Comilla model consumption cultivation deep tube-wells development expenditures discussion domestic East Pakistan economic effects employment estimates export fact farm favour fertilizer food aid foodgrains foreign aid Green Revolution Griffin growth H.Y.V. technology Hossain important increase industry institutions investment irrigation jute Keith Griffin labour requirements land landless landowners less major maund ment Michael Lipton million mimeo Dacca modern inputs officials paddy peasants policies political potential poverty problem project aid Rahman René Dumont rice rice and wheat role rural Bangladesh Rural Development rural poor rural population season sector seeds sharecropping small farmers Source strategy structure subsidies surplus Table taka tenants Thana traditional U.S. dollars urban varieties village wages wheat World Bank yields per acre