The benefits of agricultural growth, from land-based development programmes in general, are unevenly distributed, tending to bypass the marginal farmers and the landless. In theory, the indirect benefits from growth, operating through various expenditure-inducted linkages, could, to some extent,...

The article explores the role of irrigation in agricultural development in Bangladesh by quantifying the relationship of fertilizer consumption and adoption of high-yielding varieties with irrigation, and estimating the effect of irrigation on the intensity of land use and the growth of crop...

The long term (1949-84) growth of Bangladesh agriculture and factors contributing to it are analysed. It is shown that the decline in per capita agricultural production is mainly due to stagnation during the late fifties and the early seventies, caused by natural factors and disruptions owing to...