State-Led or Market-Led Green Revolution? Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengal’s Farm Productivity Growth

Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee and Neha Kumar

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Abstract: This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments) in the growth of farm productivity in West Bengal, India between 1981-95. A farm panel from a stratified random sample of farms from major agricultural districts of West Bengal is used.

Keywords: productivity; land reforms; Green Revolution; west bengal; land reforms; tenancy; irrigation; agricultural development; public-private linkages; infrastructure investment; farm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09
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