CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | McNamee, Kevin |
|---|---|
| Title | Assessing Farm Size and Mechanization on Indian Agricultural Yield |
| Summary | This thesis will illustrate the process, and importance of farm mechanization and highlight the potential economic ramifications and benefits to developing nation, in particular the Indian case. Individual states in India offer different needs and capabilities of the process of mechanization. National and state level policies and schemes will be assessed as to their level of commitment and potential benefits from the agriculture sector down to individual farmers. There is ample literature on the subject of farm mechanization. While it is almost universally accepted that machinery increases farming output, quantifiable results are sparse. Countries concerned with farm mechanization invariably fall under developing nation status, facing many issues at the national level. India offers a unique opportunity as an emerging economy to provide a blueprint for modernizing their farmers, which has potential to be applied to countries in a similar growth path. India, among its developing nations brethren, is in the enviable position of having flourishing sectors of its economy. Comparatively, this allows India greater financial wherewithal, allowing them to think in terms of not IF they can modernize and mechanize their agriculture sector, but simply a question of HOW is the best way of going about doing it. Since the turn of the century the Indian government has recognized the potential of their agriculture sector and has taken on the task of modernization headlong. The study finds that, as expected, there is a positive affect from increased mechanization on agricultural output as a whole. It appears that in the case of India, accounting for other underlying institutional and systematic conditions it is still in the best interests of all Indian states to further promote modernization of their farmers. The benefits of such an effort would have far reaching effects in a country that still relies on its agriculture for a significant portion of its Gross Domestic Product and, in the author’s opinion more importantly, the overwhelming portion of its work force that it employs. |
| Supervisor | P. Lieli Robert |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/mcnamee_kevin.pdf |
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