Understanding agrarian impasse in Bihar

The key hypothesis of policy-makers during the 1980s was that raising tubewell density would trigger agrarian upsurge in Bihar as it did in Punjab, Haryana and western UP. The state did record high growth rates of cereal yields during the 1980s, higher than the national figures. However, this promis...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Kishore, Avinash
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2004
Subjects:	tube wells groundwater irrigation rice wheat water market farmers land ownership electricity supplies
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/41086