Food for Soil, Food for People
Research on Food Crops, Fertilizers, and the Making of "Modern" Indian Agriculture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4020567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Madhumita Saha (0000-0002-5669-561X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 289-316 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2013.0059 |
| OpenAlex | W2079561385 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 14 |
Fertilizer was the lynchpin of the modernization narrative of Indian agriculture. Its appeal lay in its capacity to raise production and thereby fight hunger, bring prosperity to farmers, and achieve modernization for backward tropical agriculture. Fertilizer use took various forms in India, ranging from green manure, farmyard manure, and leguminous plants to c! hemical fertilizers. Research on each of these fertilizers in independent India has been closely linked to the political imperatives of the Indian state, its policy of social equity, the farmers' economic condition, the dynamics of cold war politics, and the agro-ecological specificities of farming in India. Through extensive archival research in India and the U.S., this paper explores the pattern of technoscientific knowledge transfer and the factors impacting its production and dissemination. It sheds light on how the scientists grappled to mediate the universalist claim of science with its vast and largely diversified site of application
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Agronomy · Biology · Economic growth · Economics · Food processing · Geography · Manure · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Social science · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
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Diversifying Description
Commentary
India's political economy, 1947-1977
War and Nature
The Violence of the Green Revolution
History of Development
The Green Revolution Revisited
The Green revolution and social inequalities in rural India
An Introduction to Tropical Agriculture
The Development of National Agricultural Research Capacity
The Green Revolution in India
"Jobs, Poverty and the "Green Revolution
Indian Famines and Peasant Victims
Ironies of India's Green Revolution
The Green Revolution
India's Green Revolution. Economic Gains and Political Costs
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |