Overview

A study in 1987 concluded that agricultural innovations for dryland had been developed in India but that, amongst others extension and implementation was not very successful. The present study is in fact a continuation of this interest in the problems faced by farming households living in remote, economically backward, semi-arid regions and the policies towards these regions. The study focuses on agricultural change in a semi-arid area south of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh and analyses in depth the effect of two intervention strategies: a project financed by the World Bank and implemented by the Andhra Pradesh government and a project implemented by AWARE, one of the largest NGOs in Andhra Pradesh and in India. Agriculture is of prime concern in India, and a bad monsoon the nightmare of every sitting government. Thus it intends to compare government and NGO interventions and non-intervention with regard to dryland agriculture in the semi-arid region of Andhra Prradesh. It aims to analyse the process and the consequences of adoption of improved technologies for dryland agriculture. The adoption of new technologies at the farm land and the facts explaining the use of these technologies form a major component of the study. This project was developed in cooperation with the Department of Geography, University of Madras and forms part of IDPAD (Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development).

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Author:   Marcel Put ,  Meine Pieter van Dijk
Publisher:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Imprint:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Edition:   UK ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.682kg
ISBN:  

9788173043369

ISBN 10:   8173043361
Pages:   418
Publication Date:   01 January 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Glossary; Preface; Introduction; An Introduction to Andhra Pradesh; A Profile of Ranga Reddy & Mahabubnagar: A Drought Risk Assessment, Agriculutral & Social Change, & the Role of NGOs; Project Interventions in Dryland Agriculture: The Examples of the Government of India/World Bank-supported Maheswaram Project & of AWAREs Activities in Amangal Mandal; An Introduction to the Study Villages; Indigenous & Recommended Technologies for Dryland Agriculture in the Study Villages; Adoption of Recommended (in-situ) Soil & Water Conservation Technologies; Adoption of Recommended Crop Management Technologies for Dryland Crops; Summary, Conclusions & Recommendations; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.

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Marcel Put is a geographer and has been working as a planner in Bhutan. In the 1990s while at the Faculty of the Environmental Sciences, University of Amsterdam, he specialized in the fields of sustainable agricultural and rural development, soil and water conservation and crop management in drylands. Meine Pieter van Dijk is Professor of Water Services Management, UNESCO IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands.

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