Rural Development in Punjab
Rural Development in Punjab

Author: Autar S. Dhesi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2020-11-29

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 1000087573

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For many years, agricultural development in Punjab symbolised one of the most successful experiments in rural development. However, this success story seems to be going astray. The crux of the problem, this volume suggests, is that externally driven modernization to meet national food needs pushed Punjab into highly specialized production of wheat and rice, resulting in over-utilisation of natural resources with adverse environmental consequences that jeopardizing the long-term viability and sustainability of the agrarian economy. Stagnating productivity, reduced farm size, falling household incomes, depleting groundwater resources, are only a few of the problems that characterise Punjab’s agriculture today. The book establishes clearly that rural development implies more than transformation of traditional agriculture. Apart from ensuring efficient use of limited resources to sustain agricultural production, rural policy should encompass promotion of non-farm activities, investments in social and economic structure and civic amenities.

Monitoring Systems for Agricultural and Rural Development Projects
Monitoring Systems for Agricultural and Rural Development Projects

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9789251013588

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Aunque muchos proyectos de desarrollo rural han producido resultados favorables, otros han resultado decepcionantes. Las evaluaciones ex-post a menudo tienen actividades bien realizadas demasiado tarde para que se tomen medidas correctivas. Por lo tanto, los gobiernos nacionales, así como las agencias internacionales de financiación, sienten cada vez más la necesidad de una evaluación continua y un seguimiento estrecho de los proyectos de desarrollo agrícola y rural.

Technology For Rural Development - Proceedings Of The Second Asian Conference On Technology For Rural Development
Technology For Rural Development - Proceedings Of The Second Asian Conference On Technology For Rural Development

Author: S Radhakrishna

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1988-02-01

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 9813201762

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In the last few years there has been a revival of interest in the old idea that spacetime may have more than four dimensions, all but four having been curled up into a small circumference. In this view the various particles and interactions we see at ordinary energies arise from a simple, perhaps purely geometrical, theory in higher dimensions. This idea has profound implications for elementary particle physics and cosmology, and raises challenging problems of mathematics. These matters were the topic of the Second Jerusalem Winter School of Theoretical Physics.