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Research Methodology,of North Arcot District, Tamil Nadu and of Hambantota and Moneragala Districts, Sri Lanka; and that our field methods involved both rigorous sample surveys and village studies in depth. The purpose of the present chapter is to describe our research methodology in such a way that the reader may under

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Adoption of the New Technology in North Arcot District,cal fertilisers, improved cultural practices and the mechanisation of agricultural operations. Reports from agricultural research stations claim that an optimum package of these inputs leads to substantial increases in rice yields. More recently, following the oil crisis and subsequent fertilizer sh

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The Limitations of HYV Technology in North Arcot District: the View from a Village,ent bus services on the main road only half a mile away (for general village statistics see chapter 15). Proximity to the town helps to account for some important characteristics: early electrification and installation of pump-sets (in 1951); intensive use of organic manure of urban origin, which —

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Pahalagama: a Case Study of Agricultural Change in a Frontier Environment,area irrigated from Wirawila tank — the Kirindi Oya right bank scheme (KORB). It is not a ‘village community’ so much as an area of dispersed settlement, including 85 households, given a limited degree of unity because it surrounds a single yaya. Since it lies towards the tail-end of KORB, some of t

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Agricultural Extension: Myth, Reality and Challenge,eginbotham, 1973; Mook, 1974), and has also been studied in some of its aspects in Sri Lanka (Abeyratne, 1973; ARTI, 1974). Much of the concern has been with the diffusion of new technology in agriculture, with a tendency in India towards studies of the communication process. Our own selective study

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