Green Revolution?: Technology and Change in Rice-growing Areas of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Technology and Change in Rice-growing Areas....Pages 1-6
Setting the Stage....Pages 7-19
Paddy and Rice Statistics in Sri Lanka....Pages 20-29
Bias in Perception of Agrarian Change in India....Pages 30-36
Research Methodology....Pages 37-53
Selective Adoption as a Strategy for Agricultural Development: Lessons from Adoption in S.E. Sri Lanka....Pages 54-84
Chena-Paddy Interrelationships....Pages 85-91
Adoption of the New Technology in North Arcot District....Pages 92-123
The Limitations of HYV Technology in North Arcot District: the View from a Village....Pages 124-142
Pahalagama: a Case Study of Agricultural Change in a Frontier Environment....Pages 143-154
Agricultural Extension: Myth, Reality and Challenge....Pages 155-167
Tractors, Profits and Debt in Hambantota District, Sri Lanka....Pages 168-181
Rural Electrification and the Diffusion of Electric Water-Lifting Technology in North Arcot District, India....Pages 182-203
Impact of the Cultivation of High-Yielding Varieties of Paddy on Income and Employment....Pages 204-224
Implications of Changes in Agriculture for Social Relationships at the Village Level: the Case of Randam....Pages 225-245
Social Implications of Changes in Agriculture in Hambantota District....Pages 246-255
Marketing Scarce Chemical Inputs: an International Comparison....Pages 256-267
Besieging the Free Market: the Effects of the Paddy-Rice Levy....Pages 268-275
Paddy-Milling: Problems in Policy and the Choice of Technology....Pages 276-300
Comparing Twelve South Indian Villages: in Search of Practical Theory....Pages 301-322
Hydrological Consequences of Agrarian Change....Pages 323-339
Men and Water: the Organisation and Operation of Irrigation....Pages 340-363
Problems of Water Management in Hambantota District....Pages 364-376
The Crisis and the Future....Pages 377-397
Challenges for Rural Research and Development....Pages 398-412
Perceptions, Technology and the Future....Pages 413-421
Back Matter....Pages 423-429