Human labour use with existing and prospective technologies in the semi‐arid tropics of South India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20302247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R D Ghodake (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), James G Ryan (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), Rakesh K Sarin (0000-0002-7567-8751, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), R Sarin |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-46 |
| Publication date | 1981-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00220388108421815 |
| OpenAlex | W2087421159 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This study, based on work in six villages, seeks insights into the likely effect of the introduction of prospective land‐, water‐, and crop‐management technologies, being researched at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi‐Arid Tropics, on the existing village labour‐use patterns in one major relevant region: peninsular India. Explicit attention is given to the similarities and differences between small and large farms and their relevance to the adoption of the prospective new technologies. Regional variation in labour utilisation reveals a tremendous employment‐creating potential in the existing tank and well irrigation systems in the Alfisols of peninsular India. The prospective technologies should increase employment, compared with existing technologies, by at least 100 per cent in the Alfisols and by over 300per cent in the deep Vertisols— but with some increase in the seasonal variability of labour demand. Given the existing availability of labour, there will be, with the improved watershed technologies, major farm labour bottlenecks. These should eventually generate increased wage rates and employment potentials. However, even temporary adverse effects on the timelessness of operations could be critical to the success of a double‐cropping and/or intercropping technology aiming at greatly increased yields. This would create demands for selective mechanisation, for example, of threshing
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Arid · Business · Cropping · Economics · Emerging technologies · Geography · Irrigation · Threshing · Tropics · Work (physics) · Agricultural risk and resilience · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Computer Science · Engineering
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
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| Citation span | 1985 - 1988 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |