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Impact of Agricultural Research: Post-Green Revolution Evidence from India

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Title Impact of Agricultural Research: Post-Green Revolution
Evidence from India
 
Creator Bantilan, M C S
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Agricultural research systems all over the world are acclaimed for their
significant contributions to food and nutritional security and poverty alleviation.
There is empirical evidence of agricultural growth induced by the Green Revolution
technologies having benefited the rural and urban poor through reduction in food
prices. Although the impact in terms of poverty reduction has multiplied over
the years and spread geographically, there is a need to accelerate these impacts
in order to improve the livelihoods of the poorest of the poor and to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
India is one of the success stories of the Green Revolution. The Indian
experience has convincingly proven that appropriate technologies, supported by
facilitating public policies and efficient institutions, can transform smallholder
agriculture. Umpteen studies have revealed that these three major sources of
agricultural growth are highly interactive and dynamic. They evolve in the
contextual realities of an agricultural sector and respond to internal and external
developmental changes. However, the question now arises as to how modern
technologies and institutions interact in the era of privatization and globalization.
The ways and means of harmonizing national agricultural policies with international
agreements on trade, exchange of resources, property rights, etc, should be
evolved for accelerating the flow of technologies to millions of smallholders.
Research impacts are not uniform across different sub-sectors of agriculture
owing to differences in the degree of market orientation, efficiency of input and
service delivery systems, dominance of smallholders, etc. Sector-specific
institutional and policy constraints need to be understood and addressed in order
to enhance the flow of technology to farmers and to realize large-scale impacts.
Similarly, greater attention should be paid to understanding institutional constraints
to the dissemination and adoption of technologies promoting sustainable use of
natural resources. The same holds true for the technologies for livestock,
horticulture and agro-processing which are capital intensive.
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) have a long
tradition of research partnership in agricultural science. Both accord high priority
to tracking adoption of technologies by farmers, assessing their impacts and
learning from this experience. Social scientists from both the organizations have
allocated considerable resources towards this work and brought out a number
of publications. This volume is an addition to this series, wherein both macroand
micro-level studies pertaining to different sectors of Indian agriculture have
been covered in detail, with evidence mostly stemming from the post-Green
Revolution period.
 
Publisher National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Contributor Joshi, P K
Pal, S
Birthal, P S
Bantilan, M C S
 
Date 2005
 
Type Book
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3209/1/152-163.pdf
Bantilan, M C S (2005) Impact of Agricultural Research: Post-Green Revolution Evidence from India. National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, New Delhi, India.