Employment and Technology Choice in Asian Agriculture: A Study Prepared for the International Labour Office Within the Framework of the World Employment ProgrammeILO pub-WEP pub. Monograph on agricultural employment and choice of technology in developing countries of Asia - considers the level of employment generated through agricultural development, in particular in grain production, estimates required labour supply, and proposes an evaluation model of input output, employment creation and income distribution effects resulting from various combinations of alternative technologys and cultivation techniques. Bibliography pp. 108 to 122 and statistical tables. |
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Developing a Bottom up Synthetic Model | 6 |
Choice of Technique | 25 |
Combinations of Technologies and Techniques | 34 |
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Aligarh District Alternative Techniques application Asian bajra based on survey biological-chemical bullocks chemical fertilizers choice of technique Combinations of Technology Comilla Comilla District crop production cropped area cropping intensity cultivated hectare Cuttack desi plow disk harrow East Pakistan Economics employment effects field studies fungicides grain harvesting Hectare Traditional herbicides HYV and Traditional HYV farms HYV technology HYV wheat India Indian Punjab indicated Input per Hectare input per unit Intermediate techniques IRRI irrigated wheat irrigation Johl Kaira District kg/ha labor input labor requirements land preparation manual mechanical innovation mechanized techniques Mimeographed moldboard plow niques Orissa Paddy Farms percent pesticides Philippines plowing with moldboard Requirements per Hectare seed drill Singh Source sowing method Sri Lanka survey data Table tech technologies and techniques technology farms threshing total operations tractor traditional techniques traditional technology tubewell unirrigated unit of cropped unit of output Uttar Pradesh wheat Wheat Farms winnowing worker-hours per hectare