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Crop production on share tenanted and owner operated rice land in four villages of Dhaka district are compared with the aim of finding out whether modern technology is adopted differentially by tenant and owner farmers. No significant difference is found in the levels of labour, seed or fertilizer used on the owned land and the share rented land. The study suggests that owner operated land produces slightly more rice than share tenant land. (DÜI-Sen)

Variant of the social accounting matrix is used to measure consumption and production linkages of employment under alternative rice production technologies observed in the Philippines on the base of the 1978 national input-output table, augmented by dividing the rice sector into 13 rice production sub-sectors. Simulations consider a one percent change on consumer spending for rice from one sub-sector compared to another. (Economische Voorlichtingsdienst)

To millions of people in the world, rice is the center of existence, especially in Asia, where more than 90 percent of the world's rice is grown. This book is about the trends and changes that have occurred in the Asian rice economy since World War II, but particularly since the introduction of new varieties of rice and modern technology in the mid-1960s. Although there is now a vast amount of literature and statistical data on various aspects of the subject, no single comprehensive treatment has previously been prepared. The Rice Economy of Asia not only provides such a treatment but also pre