Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

F. S. Bagi

Abstract

The artificial irrigation is very important for Indian agriculture because, the rainfall is not evenly distributed over the year. The most of the rainfall occurs during the monsoon season, while crops need water at regular intervals throughout the year. Therefore, only irrigation can supply the necessary moisture for crops during the remainder of the year, and hence can reduce the uncertainty of crop production and lower the risk. This can lead to an increase in agricultural productivity in a number of ways.

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F. S. Bagi

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Since the release of the first Farm Management survey data in the late fifties, probably the single issue most intensively investigated by the Indian economists has been, "the relationship between the farm size and farm productivity." Most of the major works dealing with this topic, published before 1968 have been critically reviewed by Bhagwati and Charkravarty (1969) and those published before 1974 have been discussed by Bharadwaj (1974). This unprecedented interest in the subject is quite natural, because a comparative analysis of the economics of small and large farms has important implications for policy issues like land ceiling and land redistribution.

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