Asian rice bowls : the returning crisis?
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Asian rice bowls : the returning crisis?
CAB International, c1997
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences Library
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"In association with the International Rice Research Institute"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Less than two decades ago, the world was focusing on the impending food crisis across Asia, which was given little hope of ever being able to meet its rapidly growing food demand. Since then, Asia has made a quantum leap in food production. Technological innovations and policies that promoted intensive rice production systems helped achieve this. The authors of this book argue that there is a growing sense of complacency about future food supplies in Asia and that such complacency is not warranted. While rice productivity may increase, this will be limited by a number of factors: withdrawal of land and labor from agriculture to other uses, increased competition for resources, and land degradation. It is unlikely to match the increase in demand for rice because of population growth. The book provides a thorough assessment of the opportunities for increasing land productivity, including crop diversification. It evaluates the successes and limitations of the Green Revolution for rice in Asia and projects economic and technological trends forward over the next three decades.
Table of Contents
1: Introduction - The State of Rice in Post-Green Revolution in Asia 2: Rice Productivity Growth: The Case Against Complacency 3: Sustaining Farm Profits Through Technical Change 4: Intensification-Induced Degradation of the Paddy Resource Base 5: Erosion, Pollution and Poison: Externalities and Rice 6: Asian Rice Market: A Demand and Supply Prospects 7: GATT and Rice: Impact on the Rice Market and Implications for Research Priorities 8: Agricultural Commercialization and Farmer Product Choices - The Case of Diversification Out of Rice 9: Strategic Look at Factor Markets and the Organization of Agricultural Production Beyond 2025 10: Post-Green Revolution Seed Technology for Intensive Rice Systems 11: Fertilizers and Pesticides: Higher Levels versus Improved Efficiencies 12: Dealing with Labor Scarcity - Mechanical Technologies 13: References
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