A study of relationship between agriculture and population
Abstract
In the last few decades there has been great concern over the issue of natural resource management in the global context. People are very much aware that they supplier of various non renewable natural resources on this planet is shrinking rapidly due to over exhaustation and enhancement of resource appropriations. There has been the rapid transformation of worlds natural landscape to agriculture and it is learned that such use of natural resources will soon exceed it's carrying capacity by causing and irreversible damage to its natural ecosystem. Cultivated area reaches maximum and decline as towns and industrial area and encroach on agriculture land. At this point, land scarity is exacerbated by both rising food demand and falling land supply and intensification accelerates.
Population growth cause productivity to rise even in the absence of agriculture research. Population growth can also faciliates specialisation by lowering unit transaction cost. Agriculture and industrial revolution are now veiwed less as burst in productivity stimulated by invention and more as induced technical change. The role of industrial development in sustaining increase wages and per capita incomes does not imply that the appropriate development policy required pushing industrial development while squeezing or neglecting the agriculture sector. External economics of labour market pooling, human capital, technological spillovers and other network externalities imply that there are aspects of investments coordination that are not internalized by spot market. This leaves an important role for government in facilitating the requisite economic cooperation.
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