Palacios, A C (2012) Drivers of Change Agricultural modernization and women’s status in SAT India. Working Paper Series no. 35. Working Paper. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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This paper explores the extent to which agricultural modernization affects women’s status. Agricultural modernization refers to the ever-increasing use of farm implements and techniques that have previously not existed or have not been used in the local setting. These implements and techniques generally intend to imitate the western model of industrial agriculture, making large-scale cultivation more feasible. Examples of agricultural modernization include, but are not limited to, improved seeds, chemical fertilizers, tractors and mechanized threshers. Improved seeds are defined as seeds that are created by a laboratory and later sold to farmers; certainly hybrid seeds in the purist sense have existed for millennia as farmers knowingly cross-bred their plants for desirable traits. Biotech or genetically modified seeds are a subset at the most technologically advanced end of improved seeds, and these are seeds that contain genes not native to their own species.....
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Divisions: | UNSPECIFIED |
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| Subjects: | Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics |
| Depositing User: | Mr Sanat Kumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2013 11:18 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2013 11:18 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/6502 |
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