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...Edward Van Roy Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 Supply Response in Underdeveloped Agriculture: A Case Study of Four Major Annual Crops in Thailand, 1937–1963 . By Jere R. Behrman . Amsterdam : North-Holland Publishing Company , 1968 . Contributions...

... are generally regarded as exaggerated. Based on per capita consumption requirements, Liu and Yeh regard the pre-1956 official figures as gross understatements. They accept, however, the official figure for 1957. They allow for no more than 5 percent increase from 1952 to 1957 for the production of food crops...

... of the information that is now available and assesses its reliability to draw some rough generalizations. On the whole it seems that agricultural production in the two countries has grown at fairly similar rates. In terms of absolute level Chinese yield per hectare in most crops, of course, exceeds that of India...

...; it was a consumer economy; and it was integrated by religious norms. In Boeke's widely known one-line summary, Asian society is essentially a “religious community of food-crop cultivators all belonging to the same clan or social unity.” There is a sort of Gemeinschaft , an organic unity of peasant cultivators, held...

...Paul R. Brass Abstract In the summer of 1966, Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh provinces in India experienced one of the worst and most widespread droughts and crop failures in the history of the region during the twentieth century. Massive local, national, and international relief efforts were...

...Arthur L. Rosenbaum Abstract The Changsha rice riot of April 12–16, 1910 was one of the series of popular revolts that racked the Ch'ing dynasty in its closing years.1 Triggered by serious crop failures and peasant demand for relief, it involved over twenty thousand participants and the occupation...

... on the local peasantry, despite the great technical and economic advantages of doing so. Control of the land, in most cases, did not pass into the hands of industrialists. The organization of crop production remained almost unchanged in the north, while in the west, despite initial progress toward a plantation...

... by sponsoring cash-crop farming in the form of soybean cultivation to meet the growing financial demands of doling out retainer stipends and paying the other high costs of life in the Tokugawa polity. As peasants cleared new swaths of land for soybean cultivation, however, they in turn sparked changes...

... that sub-critical deficiencies of these amino-acids, sufficient to reduce general vitality and well-being, are already widespread in the region. These amino-acids are the ones least abundant in the produce of crop-plants which yield the highest returns of energy-foods. Expanded production of these special...

... kawasan hutan by classifying palm oil as a tree crop. The article concludes that the widespread quest for certainty and rule of law is quixotic because it ignores the realities of political economy, including social conflict, beneath the veneer of law. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... for reclamation by Chinese migrants put greater pressure on each acre to produce food. With a limited supply of selenium in the soil, the intake of this mineral by crops decreased over time, especially under the extractive conditions of the soybean industry during the Japanese occupation. Japanese theories...

... China through the Korean peninsula and Japan have been less than convincing. In North China, the crops involved were millet ( Setaria italica ) and kaoliang ( Sorghum vulgare ); in South China, rice ( Oryza sativa japonica and indica ). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982...

... crops for the market that was largely responsible for the high land productivity in kinki. Likewise, it is highly likely that the alleged rise in Meiji land productivity can be attributed chiefly to accelerated commercialization and specialization, brought about by the coming of railroads...

... of agricultural involution in nineteenth century Java with my own work on Pampanga Province, Philippines, provides some first steps towards a theory of rural change. Specifically, a modern cash crop economy produces more sophisticated contractual relations between tenants and landowners regardless of changes...

... 1917/18 and 1927/28, considerable amount of road building was completed in Chinchow and P'u Ian tien prefectures. Kannai Shinajin no nōka keizai , p. 21. 48 The evidence showing vegetable crop yield differences in P'u Ian tien district (Furanten) for 1918/19 shows that area and yield devoted...

..., some 3.5 per cent of the village families were not TABLE I Number and Area of Farms Farms Per Cent Mu Per Cent Owners Part-Owners Tenants 244 61.0 135 33.8 21 5.2 Total 400 100.0 1 Owned 2,248 mu; Rented 1,162 mu. 1 Owned 16.7 mu; Rented 8.6 mu. 1 Total crop mu 15,044. Index of Double Cropping 121...

... a complex operational model which simulates regional behavior with respect to crop farming for the five central districts of Punjab State, India. Higher order goals subsistence food consumption, allowance for safety in farm investment and in modifying crop patterns, and cash for purchased consumption...

..., University of Delhi; and the University of Santiniketan, West Bengal. 6 There are also six farm costing projects in the Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Bombay, and Madras. The projects are designed to discover the costs of production and input-output profile of various crops and sizes...

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