Open AccessProducers' Response to Changes in Prices and Marketing Policies: A Case Study of Sugarcane and Paddy in Eastern U.P. by S. C. Gupta and A. Majid. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1965.
Author(s) -
Mohammad Irshad Khan
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v8i2pp.308-309
Subject(s) - subsistence agriculture , cash , cash crop , agricultural economics , incentive , agriculture , publishing , economics , crop , work (physics) , geography , agricultural science , political science , market economy , finance , biology , engineering , mechanical engineering , archaeology , law , forestry
It is alleged that the agricultural output in poor countriesresponds very little to movements in prices and costs because ofsubsistence-oriented produc¬tion and self-produced inputs. The work ofGupta and Majid is concerned with the empirical verification of theresponsiveness of farmers to prices and marketing policies in a backwardregion. The authors' analysis of the respon¬siveness of farmers toeconomic incentives is based on two sets of data (concern¬ing sugarcane,cash crop, and paddy, subsistence crop) collected from the district ofDeoria in Eastern U.P. (Utter Pradesh) a chronically foodgrain deficitregion in northern India. In one set, they have aggregate time-seriesdata at district level and, in the other, they have obtained data from asurvey of five villages selected from 170 villages around Padrauna townin Deoria.