Bautista, R.M. (1990) Agricultural Growth and Food Imports in Developing Countries: A Reexamination. Documentation. Institute of Southeast Asian, Singapore.
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Abstract
The relationship between agricultural growth and food imports in developingcountries has recently attracted renewed interest among agricultural and trade economists. This is largely in reaction to the strong opposition by farmlobbies in the United States to development assistance programs abroad that promote foodgrain production allegedly to the detriment of U.S. agriculturalinterests,' which in turn was stimulated by the substantial fall in U.S. farm exports since 1981. The major food crops, including cereals, roots and tubers, pulses, groundnuts, plaintains and bananas, account for the bulk of total calorie intake indeveloping countries. Although they are net exporters of noncereal food staples, developing countries as a group i.port cereals much more heavily.For example, developing countries' exports of noncereal food crops averaged 7.8 million tons annually during the period 1979-83 whirh was only about
| Item Type: | Monograph (Documentation) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Agricultural development; Foods; Imports; Developing countries, RP7067 |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics |
| Divisions: | Other Crops |
| Depositing User: | Mr Daneti Raju |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2014 09:04 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2014 09:04 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12622 |
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