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Technical change, productivity and sustainability in irrigated cropping systems of South Asia : emerging issues in the post-green revolution era

Byerlee, D.

Technical change, productivity and sustainability in irrigated cropping systems of South Asia : emerging issues in the post-green revolution era - United Kingdom : Wiley, 1992. - 1 microfiche - Printed

Peer review Tables, graphs, references p. 494-496

Recent trends in the productivity of South Asia's irrigated cropping systems are reviewed with emphasis on the large, densely populated Indo-Gangetic plains of Pakistan and India and parts of Bangladesh, where wheat is an important crop. Technical and institutional problems emerging in these areas may seriously impinge on the ability to maintain the gains in food-grain productivity and sustain the resource base in the next two decades. Future productivity increases in South Asian cropping systems depend on a new strategy that implies profound changes in agricultural research priorities and in the institutions that foster technical change in agriculture.


Text in English

0954-1748 1099-1328 (Online)

https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3380040502


Agricultural development
Bangladesh
Cropping systems
Fertilizers
India
Pakistan
Production factors
Technical progress
Technology transfer
Yield components

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