For the fourth episode of the FAS Young Scholars' Corner Season 2, we spoke to Deepak Johnson, Associate Fellow, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, about the price and non-price factors affecting incomes from rice cultivation in Kerala and the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.
Deepak explains that non-price support measures like technological support need to complement price-related support to increase the incomes of rice cultivators.
Reading List:
- Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation: Promoting Growth with Poverty Reduction - John W. Mellor
- Paddy Cultivation in Kerala - Jayan Jose Thomas
- Agricultural Land Policies and Their Impact on Agricultural Production and Peasants’ Lives in Viet Nam Today - Pham Van Duc
- Impact of Economic Liberalization on Rice Intensification, Agricultural Diversification, and Rural Livelihoods in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam - Jean-François Le Coq and Guy Trebuil
- Observations from the Fieldwork in Kerala- Deepak Johnson
- Observations from the Fieldwork in Mekong Delta - Deepak Johnson
