Articles by G S Bhalla

This paper discusses the likely scenarios regarding employment and income growth in agriculture and non-agriculture in rural and urban areas under various assumptions about sectoral growth rates and employment elasticities. It is evident that India faces a problem in generating enough employment in the years ahead to keep pace with the growth in the labour force as also in raising wages and productivity of workers. Against this backdrop the authors consider possible strategies for increasing employment significantly reducing rural and urban poverty by 2020.

This paper attempts to project feed and food demand for India to 2020 under alternative income growth scenarios: " These alternatives are: continuation of current trend of 3.5 per cent growth in per capita income; acceleration of growth in per capita income to 5.5 per cent; raising the entire poor above the poverty line ('Non-poor India '); and ensuring that every one is well fed in terms of calories ('Well-fed India

in India G S Bhalla D S Tyagi With the adoption of new seed fertiliser technology, agriculture in major parts of India has undergone a significant transformation. The yield levels of some crops have experienced phenomenal rise, thereby accelerating the growth of agricultural output in states where these crops constitute an important component of the cropping pattern. Whereas to begin with, during 1962-65 to 1970-73, the green revolution was confined to only a few northwestern states, it seems to have gradually extended to many other parts of India during the seventies, though this extension is still much too narrowly confined. This paper seeks to study the spatial pattern of agricultural growth in the country, taking 19 major crops which account for 82 to 90 per cent of both area and value of output in the different states. Also discussed are the changes in male agricultural worker productivity THE main purpose of this paper is to highlight the spatial pattern of the levels and growth in agricultural output in the country, as also the variations in labour productivity at the state level In the case of foodgrains, the analysis is based on the comparison between the quinquennia ending major crops, the analysis is based on the

This paper evaluates the impact of the green revolution on income distribution among cultivating households in Punjab. The authors analyse the production structure and income levels of various farm-size categories. An attempt is also made to examine the emerging pattern of consumption with increase in income brought about by technological change in agriculture. While the analysis covers all categories of cultivators in general, the focus of the study is on bringing out the relative position of marginal and small farmers in the production, income and consumption nexus.

This paper examines critically same widely-supported formulations about the impact of new technology in agriculture.
The first port of the paper briefly reviews the development of Indian agriculture since independence and examines whether there is a correlation between growth and the application of modern science and technology in the spatial pattern of agricultural development in the country.