1st Edition

Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development A Study of North India (1961-72)

By D. P. Chaudhri Copyright 1979
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1979, Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development investigates the effect of education on agricultural productivity and innovations that took place in the wake of the Green Revolution in North India, using a simultaneous equations model. The Green Revolution of the 1960s, with its twin aims of raising production and improving the quality of input, was expected to... Read more

Foreword by A. S. Bhalla 1. Farmers’ Education, Innovations, Productivity and Employment 2. Measurement of Educational Impact amongst Self-Employed Persons in Agriculture 3. Education, Innovation and Productivity in Punjab and Haryana Agriculture (1961 – 72) 4. Determining the Causal Chain 5. Education, Entrepreneurship and Farm Business 6. Agricultural Wages, Employment and Workers’ Education 7. An Exercise in Cost Benefit Analysis of Rural Education 8. Conclusions and Policy Implications References Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography of Studies Relating to the Role of Education in Agricultural Production Appendix B: Sources of Data Appendix C: Statistical Tables Index

Biography

D. P. Chaudhri