Punjab's agricultural innovation challenge

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Fifty years ago, Punjab embarked on its famous Green Revolution, leading the rest of India in that innovation, and becoming the country's breadbasket. Now its economy and society are struggling by relative, and sometimes even absolute, measures. Using the original Green Revolution as a benchmark, this paper discusses five areas of challenge and promise for a new round of agricultural innovation in Punjab. These are: complexity of the agricultural economy, complementary inputs such as infrastructure, switching costs (including risks), balancing frontier innovation and adaptation, and the relative roles of the public and private sectors.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 731

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Agriculture: General ; Capitalist Systems: Political Economy ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political Economy; Property Rights
• Subject: Punjab ; agriculture ; innovation ; switching costs ; infrastructure

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Singh, Nirvikar
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of California, Economics Department
• (where): Santa Cruz, CA
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125553
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET