The village impact of machine threshing and implications for technology development in the semi‐arid tropics of peninsular India

Walker, T S and Kshirsagar, K G (1985) The village impact of machine threshing and implications for technology development in the semi‐arid tropics of peninsular India. The Journal of Development Studies, 21 (2). pp. 215-231. ISSN 0022-0388

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Abstract

This study evaluates the dynamic consequences of machine threshing in the Semi‐Arid Tropics (SAT) of Peninsular India. We rely on a panel of 30 cultivator and 10 landless labour households to monitor, over five cropping years from 1975/76 to 1979/80, the impact of mechanical threshing on the village economy. Machine threshing did not significantly reduce costs, increase cropping intensity, or greatly harm labour. These results are strongly conditioned by the ecological features of the SAT. Their implications for public‐sector investment in research on selective threshing mechanisation are drawn.

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Depositing User:	Mr Charan Sai Ch
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2011 06:30
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2011 06:30
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3393
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388508421939
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