FROM THE CHAIR-Indo-Burma Petroleum Records Highest Sales

of Agricultural Economics, January- March 1963.
5 Following the step method, we note that the HYV alone will bring about a 13 per cent increase in demand for human labour above what it otherwise would have been using the conventional technology, the successive changes reduce this new level by 32 per cent. Pumps reduce the level by 9 per cent; threshers 7 per cent; cane crushers and corn shellers by 3 per cent; tractors 10 per cent and reapers by 3 per cent.