Green Revolution?: Technology and Change in Rice-growing by B. H. Farmer (eds.)

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The contributions of increased area and yield to this drive are explored in chapter 6, while chapter 3 comments on problems of official statistics in this connection. All that need be done here is to outline, as an important part of the setting for the Green Revolution in Sri Lanka, the steps taken to create an environment which would help paddy farmers to raise the productivity of their lands (paddy is essentially a small-holders' crop), as at the time of our fieldwork. (Note that 2·47 acres= I hectare, and that I bushel of paddy per acre may be taken as 52· 77 kg per hectare) The Guaranteed Price Scheme (CPS) which goes back to 1948 and provides not only a fair and stable official price (Rs33 per bu.

Columns 13 and 14 compare the difference between this demand and the highest and lowest estimates of rice production plus rice imports. On the most generous figures the difference between production plus imports and need is increasing, although to be fair, two aberrant years 1968 and 1970 had a clear surplus under all conditions of data. Strictly speaking, and under generous assumptions about data, there was enough surplus in rice alone to tide the country over the two following years and longer.

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