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... farming . The explicit intention was " to enable the peasant col- onist farmers to produce a surplus . . . not to create a large body of subsistence farmers . " The feasibility study prepared for the government went further : " The ...
... farming . The explicit intention was " to enable the peasant col- onist farmers to produce a surplus . . . not to create a large body of subsistence farmers . " The feasibility study prepared for the government went further : " The ...
Page 172
... farmers that traditional cultivators can be introduced - with any success - into the market system . " We have already seen , in our chapter on resettlement , how the Sri Lankan government is using the Mahaweli scheme to trans- form its ...
... farmers that traditional cultivators can be introduced - with any success - into the market system . " We have already seen , in our chapter on resettlement , how the Sri Lankan government is using the Mahaweli scheme to trans- form its ...
Page 181
... farmers will have little say in the running of the plan- tation . As Richard Franke and Barbara Chasin of Montclair Col- lege , New York , point out : " The Casamance rice scheme is to be a profit - making venture in which the ...
... farmers will have little say in the running of the plan- tation . As Richard Franke and Barbara Chasin of Montclair Col- lege , New York , point out : " The Casamance rice scheme is to be a profit - making venture in which the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Problems of Resettlement | 17 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
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