A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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... increases in the rates of The decline of income relative to non - agriculture could be interpreted unemployment . as increase in underemployment . Any program that affects the 50 million plus farms ( operating units ) of India is ...
... increases in the rates of The decline of income relative to non - agriculture could be interpreted unemployment . as increase in underemployment . Any program that affects the 50 million plus farms ( operating units ) of India is ...
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... increases in taxes and the more systematic treatment of assessments beginning with Sher Shah ( 1540-45 ) who intro- duced a method of land measurement and classification . The settlement was made specifically in terms of the individual ...
... increases in taxes and the more systematic treatment of assessments beginning with Sher Shah ( 1540-45 ) who intro- duced a method of land measurement and classification . The settlement was made specifically in terms of the individual ...
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... increased with the introduction of health measures and failure to industrialize . The effects of general underdevelopment fell upon agriculture . Even ( 4 ) Decay of the village : Finally , there was the decay of the village community ...
... increased with the introduction of health measures and failure to industrialize . The effects of general underdevelopment fell upon agriculture . Even ( 4 ) Decay of the village : Finally , there was the decay of the village community ...
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... limited . New areas had to be developed through reclamation and intensification . While population was expanding , very little increase in cultivated land took place . Cropland as a Percent of Total Land U.S.S.R. , 1961 - 17 -
... limited . New areas had to be developed through reclamation and intensification . While population was expanding , very little increase in cultivated land took place . Cropland as a Percent of Total Land U.S.S.R. , 1961 - 17 -
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... increases in production . The Grow More Food campaign focused specifically Expenditure on the GMF schemes between 1943 at increasing food crops . and 1950-51 were Rs . 675 million yet only 52 percent of the food grain targets were ...
... increases in production . The Grow More Food campaign focused specifically Expenditure on the GMF schemes between 1943 at increasing food crops . and 1950-51 were Rs . 675 million yet only 52 percent of the food grain targets were ...
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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.