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... and the idioms of colonial and nationalist economics, India's bureaucrats and politicians contrasted the nation's “progressive farmers” with the passivity and superstition alleged to be characteristic of the majority of peasants, establishing crop competitions and the title of Krishi Pandit —“master farmer...

...Michaeline A. Crichlow © 1997: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1997 The Limits of Maneuver: Caribbean States, Smal Farmers and the Capitalist World Economy, 1940s-1995 Michaeline A. Crichlow Most...

... to realize it on the ground, even imperfectly. It also persists despite enormous pressure. The last decade has proven challenging for Malerkotla citizens, but their work continues. From the protests in Shaheen Bagh, Delhi, against the Citizenship Amendment Act, to the farmers’ protests at the Delhi borders...

... progress in a unique way. In analyzing how the Lagos press utilized agricultural and technical associations to formulate and advertise their ideas for the future of Lagos society, this article also argues that the idealized depictions of skilled artisans and farmers by the urban, educated African elites...

... the prices exponentially in the micromarkets. Speculation makes it impossible for the state to match the market price, and its compensation for the land losers is always quite low, which the latter refuse to accept. The landowning farmers, on the other hand, have developed a capacity to adjust...

..., including women farmers were compiled by the author during residence in Sugao in 1976–77, 1979, and 1981–82. The author is in the process of completing a book on the impact of development on rural women in India. For a comparison of rural industries in one small (Sugao) and one large village...

... to plough the land • Bangladesh. Ra jshahi district itself is situated in the they may rent land from rich farmers to cultivate on a northwestern region of Bangladesh. It is on the northern side sharecropping basis. But generally the landless peasants do of the river Ganges...

.... , 1974 , Green Revolution , New Delhi: Vikas. Ridkar , G.R. , and H. Lubell (eds), 1971 , Employment and Unemployment Problems of the Near East and South Asia, Vol. 1 , New Delhi: Vikas. Rudra , A. , 1969 , “Big Farmers of Punjab”, Economic and Political Weekly , December. Rudra...

... of the same time giving rise to many socio-political and eco- farmers, i.e., small or big, poor or rich. But the real ques- nomic dilemmas. Wharton has rightly pointed out that tion is, who can afford to use the new technology and bene- fit from...

.... Reprint from Economic and Political Weekly . 1971 . De Janvry , Alain , and K. Subbarao Agricultural Price Policy and Income Distribution in India , Oxford University Press (Delhi). 1986 . Jodha , N.S. “Role of Credit in Farmers' Adjustment against Risk in Arid and Semi-arid Tropical...

...: South Asia Bulletin, COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SOUTH ASIA, AFRICAAND THE MIDDLE EAST, VOl. XV NO. 1 (1995) arises out of “immigration,” namely, from migrants The bulk of agricultural land is owned by about who have been retrenched in the mines and other 60,000 white farmers. It is from these white...

... was founded in 2008. Malkha stands for a decentralized, sustainable, field-to-fabric cotton textile chain that is collectively owned by the primary producers (the farmers, ginners, spinners, dyers, and weavers). 1 A goldsmith by training, I do not myself weave, but have worked with weaving families as part...

... aintaining a European style of consumption became one of the most significant markers of social class in Egypt after the First World War.1 No habit was as fundamental to identity as the daily meal, and no food staple as common as bread. While rural farmers still largely baked coarse flat loaves made from...

... on the performance of the Green Revolution pack- age in the region. Based on the analysis of the ex- 1. “Modern technology is not reaching the farmers.” The studies argue for increasing the effectiveness of periments conducted by the scientists of the Kerala...

... of rural work- labor, the self-supporting middle peasantry, using ers in their employ. It was really only the big landed their own labor without exploiting the labor of others estates which presented the party with a clear case of and the rich peasants or capitalist farmers who own capitalist...

... of resources and competitive advantage of more well-established farmers ensured their increased access to land. As will be elaborated upon below, a weak rural infrastructure, including market and credit networks, coupled with small and fragmented landholdings, made...

... diseases and information about potential remedies, the wages of rural laborers, issues related to insurance, agrarian credit, and agricultural cooperatives, and ways to protect farmers and “improve” their conditions. 7 Each of these facets of agriculture-related concerns represented a means by which...

..., ($1,300) per acre to people holding private titles these include the wealthy high-­caste landlords, (pattas) for land within the zone’s perimeter and to small-­scale farmers, and Dalit communities (once resettle those who currently lived on the site. regarded as untouchable...

... of Arizona farmers led by David A. Rogers was sent by the US government to help set up Saudi Arabia's first experimental desert farm at Al Kharj from 1944 to 1945. US officials harnessed these farmers’ knowledge of dryland agriculture in hopes of developing a favorable relationship with King Ibn Saud...

..., and they average about 17 centimeters tall by 27 centimeters wide. Turkmen Ertegileri is 23 centimeters tall by 40 centimeters wide. Figure 1: The farmer 314 with the ox he traded for the horse. Chalshirma, 3. Book...