Problèmes de l'augmentation de la production agricole en Inde

Théodore Bergmann

Économie rurale, 1968, vol. 77

Abstract: The feeding of India poses urgent problems. The agricultural production often increases only slowly, its great reserves are exploited only superficially. After centuries of exhaustion, Indian agriculture is suffering from a semous lack, of energy and capital. The increase in the number of men engaged in agriculture has harmed the land structures and lowed its economic contribution. After having brieftly described the present situation, the writer examines the supply of fertilizes and machinery. According to the writer, the tractor occupies a key position. As the large scale importation of tractors is impossible, an increase in the national prosuctin of tractors is impossible, an increase in the national production is indispensible. However, even if this production receives the priority required by the plan, the complete modernization of agriculture will take several decades. Because of the special land-structure in India, only a small fractioon of the farms will be able to have their own tractors. Therefore, a system of collective use of tractors must be set up. Land-Structure and production technique condition and influence each other. New means of production will become fully effective only after serious land reform. But the latter would be doomed to failure if work continued folloving the old methods, and with the old tools.

Keywords: Crop; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1968
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