Choudhary, B.N. (author), Prasad, C. (author), and District Training Officer, Pusa, Bihar, India; Assistant Director, General Education, I.C.A.R., New Delhi, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1977-04
Published:
India: The Fertiliser Association of India, New Delhi, India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04914
Singh, K.N. (author / Head, Division of Agricultural Extension, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India) and Head, Division of Agricultural Extension, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1976
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 36 Document Number: B03922
Notes:
In: Dasgupta, Subhachari; and Bhagat, M.G., eds. New agricultural technology and communication strategy. Bombay, India : National Institute of Bank Management, 1976. p. 271-292
Amtmann, Carlos A. (author) and Fernandez M., Francisco (author)
Format:
Book
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
International: Instituto de Ciencias Historicas y Sociales, Universidad Austral de Chile a traves de su "Programa Centro de Sociologia del Desarrollo Rural."
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 125 Document Number: C16938
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07425
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: H. W. Kerr, Jr. and L. Knutson, eds., Research for small farms, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1982. (Miscellaneous publication no. 1422). p. 23-26., Discusses a concern that terminology currently used in agricultural research and extension is obsolete and clearly inadequate. Indicates that this condition reflects, in part, the lack of conceptualization and the weakness of the concepts upon which we now depend, as well as the traditional nature of the agricultural research and extension establishment. Notes that the problem is especially serious in international work and is becoming serious even within the tradition.
Phase 1, INTERPAKS, Both research in agricultural technology and construction of land infrastructure are characterized by indivisibility, externality, and jointness in supply and utilization. The theory of public good economics of the Samuelson-Musgrave tradition tells us that the goods and services with such attributes cannot be supplied at socially optimum levels if the supply is left to private firms within a competitive market mechanism. Public investments are required to correct for such market failure. The need for public institutions to conduct adaptive research and to build and coordinate the use of irrigation systems is especially critical in Asian agriculture, where the possibility for farm producers to conduct such activities by themselves is limited. In this article, the author attempts to demonstrate the critical importance of adaptive research and land infrastructure investment in the process of diffusion of agricultural technology, drawing on the history of rice technology development in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea, in contrast to the more recent development of rice technology in South and Southeast Asia, which has been heralded as the "green revolution". He attempts to identify what institutions have to be evolved for satisfying the basic requirements for technology diffusion in agriculture, and to infer what forces were responsible for inducing such institutional evolution.
