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The Rural Economy of India

1926

In India the economist is lacking in appreciation of the scientific as contrasted with the commercial side of forestry and the indirect advatages of the former to the country ; while the alimportant subject of wells canals and waterways has been the monopoly of the engineer. [...] The prosperity of the peasant in the canal colonies of the Punjab in the alluvial plains of Eastern Bengal and in the coast strips in the South show what the Indian cultivator can do. [...] Such regions are to be found on mountain plateaux like those of West and Central Asia on the higher lands of the mountain valleys or of the river valleys at the edge of the plateaux where altitude makes the land unsuitable for agriculture or on the steppes of the temperate and the tundras of the colder latitudes. [...] The more fertile the land the greater the increase of population and the smaller the subdivision of the holding. [...] This attitude may be seen in every phase of his opertions—in the growing of two crops often to the detrment of the main crop—in the habit of sowing mixed crops to the despair of the statistician—in his preference for hardy if low-yielding varieties and in the land system in the distribution of the different classes of land so as to secure at least one crop in the year.
agriculture environment
Pages
281
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.143815
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Frontmatter
i-vi Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Preface
vii-xi Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter I Study of Rural Economics
1-7 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter II Geography of Agriculture
8-23 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter III Economy of Small Farming
24-56 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter IV Organisation of Agriculture
57-82 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter V Agriculture and Population
83-104 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter VI Robery of the Soil
105-119 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter VII Permanent Agriculture
120-140 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter VIII Crime Against Tree and Water
141-162 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter IX Use and Abuse of Water
163-191 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter X Regional Balance of Occupations
192-202 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter XI Famine
203-214 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter XII Equilibrium of Village and City
215-229 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter XIII Revival of Cottage Industries
230-237 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Chapter XIV Rural Reconstruction
238-250 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
Index
251-262 Radhakamal Mukherjee view
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i-vi Radhakamal Mukherjee view

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