Yuan-tsung Chen
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- December 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197573341
- eISBN:
- 9780197573372
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197573341.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Yuan-tsung blended further into village life, getting to know more villagers and their survival kit. One of them, a woman cadre named Winter Plum, initiated her into the black market, where she could ...
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Yuan-tsung blended further into village life, getting to know more villagers and their survival kit. One of them, a woman cadre named Winter Plum, initiated her into the black market, where she could get better food from a drunken butcher. Old Xu, the ever so complaisant village head, surprised her with his bitter resentment against his higher-ups and his bitterness over the loss of his family’s cohesion caused by collectivization. Wimpy Gu, the reticent and meek assistant to Old Xu, relieved himself occasionally with violent, emotional outbursts. Old Hong, renowned locally as the gloriously demobilized soldier, or Glorious Demob, amazed her with his web of deceit and lies for the sake of manufacturing a fake bumper harvest.Less
Yuan-tsung blended further into village life, getting to know more villagers and their survival kit. One of them, a woman cadre named Winter Plum, initiated her into the black market, where she could get better food from a drunken butcher. Old Xu, the ever so complaisant village head, surprised her with his bitter resentment against his higher-ups and his bitterness over the loss of his family’s cohesion caused by collectivization. Wimpy Gu, the reticent and meek assistant to Old Xu, relieved himself occasionally with violent, emotional outbursts. Old Hong, renowned locally as the gloriously demobilized soldier, or Glorious Demob, amazed her with his web of deceit and lies for the sake of manufacturing a fake bumper harvest.
A. Narayanamoorthy
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190126131
- eISBN:
- 9780190991593
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190126131.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental, Public and Welfare
This chapter looks at the impact of support price policy on the income from paddy crop. Markets for agricultural produces in India are mostly unorganized and distorted where farmers are often ...
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This chapter looks at the impact of support price policy on the income from paddy crop. Markets for agricultural produces in India are mostly unorganized and distorted where farmers are often scrupulously exploited. Also since the elasticity of demand for agricultural commodities particularly foodgrains is less than unit, increased production during bumper harvest brings down the prices of agricultural commodities sharply. But, the support price provided to paddy has come under severe scrutiny for various reasons in recent years. Farmers have been demanding for higher support price for paddy but some economists argue that increase in paddy price is ‘dirty economics and dirtier politics’. With the help of time series data, chapter 4 provides an elegant analysis whether the support price scheme has helped paddy cultivating farmers in terms of increasing their income.Less
This chapter looks at the impact of support price policy on the income from paddy crop. Markets for agricultural produces in India are mostly unorganized and distorted where farmers are often scrupulously exploited. Also since the elasticity of demand for agricultural commodities particularly foodgrains is less than unit, increased production during bumper harvest brings down the prices of agricultural commodities sharply. But, the support price provided to paddy has come under severe scrutiny for various reasons in recent years. Farmers have been demanding for higher support price for paddy but some economists argue that increase in paddy price is ‘dirty economics and dirtier politics’. With the help of time series data, chapter 4 provides an elegant analysis whether the support price scheme has helped paddy cultivating farmers in terms of increasing their income.
