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A Rice Village Saga: Three Decades of Green Revolution in the Philippines

By Yujiro Hayami , Masao Kikuchi

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1999
ISBN
0333726170, 9780333726174
Google Books ID
tc5tQgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL21017892M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1591411 bytes)
Pages
293\293
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The rice belt of Laguna Province, Philippines (popularly known as the heartland of the Green Revolution, for its early adoption of modern rice varieties), has experienced dramatic economic and social changes during the last three decades. Besides the major advances in new rice technology, four major forces have prompted change: increasing population pressure on limited land, implementation of land reform programmes, developments in infrastructure such as irrigation and roads, and penetration of urban economic activities. A unique data set generated from eleven surveys during 1966-97 in a typical village in Laguna, as put together in this book, illustrates a pattern of socio-economic change shared by many irrigated rice areas in the Philippines as well as in other Asian economies.

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