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Show 245 43The author while working in Washigton for A,I,D, came across where Amonium Sulphate i-lhich was purchased on the West coast of the U,S, for approximately $26,00 per ton was costing $.54.00 per ton to ship to the subcontinent on a U,S, Flag vessel, Even if non a case U,S. flag vessels were only half as much it would still be expensive freight relative to the cost of the fertilizer, 44Kahnert et, aI" Agriculture in Pakistan, P. 61. 45International Ba for Reconstruction and Development., Inter national "Current Economic Position and Development Association, Prospects of Pakistan," Vo.Ls 2 (11ashington, D.C., April, 1968), 1:59. , 46 Bose, "East-West Contrast in Pakistan's Agricultural Development," p. 81. 47International Rice Research Institute, which is located in the Philippines and has been heavily supported by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, 48The Food Self-Sufficiency Programme assumed that in irrigated of the East using 200 pounds of nutrient per acre they could 39,6 maunds* get nearly 2t times the yield of local varieties (i.e" Twenty top IRRI varieties, used in combination per acre vs, 16,4), with other inputs gave average yields of 62 to 87 maunds of paddy (41 to 57 maunds of rice) per acre which is double that of the six best areas local varieties grown in the same locations under the same treatment. (*A maund is 82.29 pounds.) Data given in Kahnert et. al., Agricul ture in Pakistan, pp, 199-200. 49Evaluation of the Third Five Year Plan, P. 122, 50Ibid,t P. 123. 5lKahnert eta al., Agr.tculture in Pakistan, p. 133. 52These figures (table 5.10) do not give any indication of how effective treatment was since some crops require multiple sprayings for effective protection. 53Bose, "East-West Contrast in Pakistan's Agricultural Develop ment," p. 85. 54Evaluation of the Third Five Year Plan, P. 121. 550ne of the private firms involved was Hercules Chemical which previously mentioned (when discussing fertilizer) Having the two inputs in fertilizer production and distribution. handled by the same distribution systems seems a very reasonable way to proceed. as is also involved |
