Productivity and technical change in foodgrains

by Romesh K Diwan

This book attempts to integrate two a visible increase in the production of foodgrains, and a simutaneous increase in the level of mass hunger and undernutrition. It develops a method for the analysis of biological and mechanical technical change through the formulation of a neo-classical production function. Based on econometric techniques it provides for the first time, empirical evidence on the impact of biological technology on land productivity...

Hardcover

Published February 1, 1986