A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... Acres : Acres Total geographical area Total area reporting land use Forests 807.5 : 807.5 : : • • • : 2 / 702.5 100.0 : 3 / 755.8 100.0 100.1 14.2 : 151.0 19.8 : Not available for cultivation 117.4 16.7 : 124.0 16.4 Barren and ...
... Acres : Acres Total geographical area Total area reporting land use Forests 807.5 : 807.5 : : • • • : 2 / 702.5 100.0 : 3 / 755.8 100.0 100.1 14.2 : 151.0 19.8 : Not available for cultivation 117.4 16.7 : 124.0 16.4 Barren and ...
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... acres between 1911 and 1951. 1 / Absolute densities of population were below that of some countries of western Europe and Southeast Asia . Yet the serious and growing pressure of land resources was an important factor in the argument ...
... acres between 1911 and 1951. 1 / Absolute densities of population were below that of some countries of western Europe and Southeast Asia . Yet the serious and growing pressure of land resources was an important factor in the argument ...
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... world standards but represented a high proportion -- 50 percent -- of national income . In the 1 / See Abstract of Agricultural Statistics and Agricultural Situation in India . fifteen years before the land reform , yields per acre · 19 -
... world standards but represented a high proportion -- 50 percent -- of national income . In the 1 / See Abstract of Agricultural Statistics and Agricultural Situation in India . fifteen years before the land reform , yields per acre · 19 -
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... acre declined in all major food crops and oilseeds , and increased only slightly in fibers . The yield per acre of rice fell from 866 lbs in 1929 to 699 lbs in 1948 , and that of wheat fell from 741 lbs to 573 lbs . In 1949 , Japan ...
... acre declined in all major food crops and oilseeds , and increased only slightly in fibers . The yield per acre of rice fell from 866 lbs in 1929 to 699 lbs in 1948 , and that of wheat fell from 741 lbs to 573 lbs . In 1949 , Japan ...
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... acres , or 16 percent of the area in cultivation , was irrigated . Rainfall is subject to monsoon . Crop production was seriously impaired by lack of adequate rainfall in dry seasons , and in some areas , all seasons . Control of water ...
... acres , or 16 percent of the area in cultivation , was irrigated . Rainfall is subject to monsoon . Crop production was seriously impaired by lack of adequate rainfall in dry seasons , and in some areas , all seasons . Control of water ...
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administration agrarian reforms Agric agricultural amended Andhra Pradesh Bihar Land Reforms Bombay British rule caste ceilings century classes compensation Congress consolidation of holdings cooperative crops cultivators Delhi districts Econ economic effect enactment ex-intermediaries farmers Five Year Plan Government of India Gujarat Implementation of Land improved income distribution increase independence Indian Journ inputs intermediary interests irrigation K. B. Sahay Kerala khas possession land reform legislation land reform program Land Reforms Act land revenue land tenure landholding landless laborers landlords landowners Madhya Pradesh Madras Maharashtra ment million acres moneylenders Mysore Orissa Oudh output owners ownership payment peasant peasantry percent period Planning Commission political population production Punjab raiyat Rajasthan records redistribution reform in India region rent rights in land Rural India ryotwari Section sector security of tenure social Survey talukdars tenants tenure-holders Thorner Uttar Pradesh village West Bengal Zamindari Abolition zamindars
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Page 54 - It is hard to think of anything more likely to lift up the spirits of masses of depressed or "backward" folk. Carried out properly, such a step might even lead to a real burst of enthusiasm, a genuine release of energy among the working peasantry. Their rights in land would increase and so would their share of the land's product. They would forthwith want more food, clothing and non-luxury housing materials ; in time they would want other commodities, some of the better things of life, and more education...
Page 31 - These recommendations relate to: — (1) Abolition of Intermediaries; (2) Tenancy reforms, eg, security of tenure to the tenants, provision of fair rents and a right of purchase for the tenants; (3) Fixation of ceiling on land holding and the distribution of the surplus land; (4) Improvement of the conditions of the agricultural workers; and (5) Co-operative organisation of agriculture with the ultimate objective of cooperative village management.