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Title: | Agricultural Transformations in India and Northern Nigeria: Exploring the Nature of Green Revolutions |
Authors: | Goldman, Abe Smith, Joyotee |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | World Development |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | February |
Pages: | 243-263 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Northern Nigeria India |
Subjects: | agricultural development Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(94)00115-F |
Abstract: | This paper examines village level experiences of 'Green Revolution' in four areas, two in India and two in Northern Nigeria. It argues that these have consisted not merely of the introduction of new high-yielding varieties but of a broad set of mutually reinforcing changes which have transformed agricultural practice in the areas in which they took place. The changes have typically involved a suite of new technological components, altered land use patterns and changes in the labour economy. These have facilitated both intensification and extensification of agriculture, resulting in substantial increases in regional output and income. Market production rather than population pressure has driven the changes in all of these cases, and it is questionable that population growth alone could lead to transformations of this kind. The cases also demonstrate that adoption of plows and fertilizers can occur at relatively low population densities in Africa, provided other conditions are favourable. In Africa, India and elsewhere such changes have been geographically uneven, occurring dramatically in some areas but affecting others only marginally. Such geographic disparities call for attempts to mitigate the regional inequities and stresses to which they give rise. The Nigerian cases examined occurred in overlapping regions, though separated by one to two decades: in the 1960s in the regions around Zaria, Sokoto and Bauchi, and from 1946 to 1968 in Gombe Emirate. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |