Technology Choice in Agriculture in India over the Past Three Decades
Author(s)
Rudra, Ashok
Abstract
This selection establishes that technological choice made for Indian agriculture has been such that the production of commodities has grown at the cost of distributional justice as well as employment and such social objectives as local resource mobilization, local initiative and national self-reliance. These effects are seen to be the cause of a convergence of the interests of rich farmers, powers of both the East and West, all supported by the deeply entrenched bias in favor of the big and sophisticated shared by the Indian Engineers and the country’s administrators.
