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Resource base as a determinant of cropping patterns. Economics Department Occasional Paper no.14

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Title Resource base as a determinant of cropping patterns. Economics Department Occasional Paper no.14
 
Creator Jodha, N S
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This report describes how a region's natural resources, the level of technology,
relative commodity prices, and market infrastructure determine the cropping pattern
of an area. Farm level resources are separated into two categories: (1)those
for which utilization ismore or less rigidly determined by ownership and (2)those
where accessibility to and utilization of the resource isnot determined by ownership.
The first category includes resources such as land, while the second includes
such things as labor, bullocks, and farm equipment. The topics discussed include
the impact of: major resource investments, canal irrigation, tractorization, and
cross sectional analysis of resource differences. Within the resource base, the
land types, irrigation, and rainfall play the most important roles. These basic
resources, together with the availability of crop varieties, markets and the relative
prices of commodities determine the comparative advantage of different crops
and crop mixes on the various soil types and also the rate of return to investment
inimprovement of the resource base. Massive resource transformations which alleviate
major constraints such as those indicated by canal irrigation and tractorization
overshadow the impact of other resource differences and can lead to shifts
incropping patterns inparticular directions for farms indifferent categories.
Such resource improvements orient the cropping patterns towards high value crops
and tend to reduce the importance of mixed crops. Introduction of new varieties
tends to change patterns of comparative advantage of different crops and may lead
to shifts incropping patterns as well as investment incentives for other capital
items.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 1977
 
Type Monograph
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5040/1/PNAAF062.pdf
Jodha, N S (1977) Resource base as a determinant of cropping patterns. Economics Department Occasional Paper no.14. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.