Jodha, N S (1977) Resource base as a determinant of cropping patterns. Economics Department Occasional Paper no.14. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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The author is Economist at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Begumpet, Hyderabad, A.P., and wishes to thank Hans P. Binswanger, James G. Ryan and G.D. Bengtson for their valuable comments and suggestions during the preparation of the paper. They of course are absolved of any blame for errors of omission and/or commission which remain. The author is grateful to the ICRISAT for providing research facilities and permission to use preliminary results of their studies in this paper. However, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect, those of ICRISAT.
Abstract
This report describes how a region's natural resources, the level of technology, relative commodity prices, and market infrastructure determine the cropping pattern of an area. Farm level resources are separated into two categories: (1)those for which utilization ismore or less rigidly determined by ownership and (2)those where accessibility to and utilization of the resource isnot determined by ownership. The first category includes resources such as land, while the second includes such things as labor, bullocks, and farm equipment. The topics discussed include the impact of: major resource investments, canal irrigation, tractorization, and cross sectional analysis of resource differences. Within the resource base, the land types, irrigation, and rainfall play the most important roles. These basic resources, together with the availability of crop varieties, markets and the relative prices of commodities determine the comparative advantage of different crops and crop mixes on the various soil types and also the rate of return to investment inimprovement of the resource base. Massive resource transformations which alleviate major constraints such as those indicated by canal irrigation and tractorization overshadow the impact of other resource differences and can lead to shifts incropping patterns inparticular directions for farms indifferent categories. Such resource improvements orient the cropping patterns towards high value crops and tend to reduce the importance of mixed crops. Introduction of new varieties tends to change patterns of comparative advantage of different crops and may lead to shifts incropping patterns as well as investment incentives for other capital items.
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| Subjects: | Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics |
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| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2011 04:07 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2011 04:53 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/5040 |
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