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1 Ekanayake, S. A. B.. 1987. Micro level planning, economic performance and human capital: A study of the settler farmers in Mahaweli Project in Sri Lanka. Unpublished thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Australian National University. 246p.
Irrigation programs ; Economic impact ; Labor ; Settlement ; Farms ; Irrigation efficiency ; Green revolution ; Social aspects / Sri Lanka / Mahaweli Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.3 G744 EKA Record No: H02213)
New technologies, irrigation and changes in the broader socio-economic environment are often major causes of disequilibria in the decision making environment of farmers in developing countries. The pace and pattern of their adjustment to new situations has concentrated on the adoption process of new technologies as a whole or in terms of particular component practices. However, situations where farmers are required to adopt and adjust to a single component practice while other elements of their environment remain static are rare. Technologies often appear in the form of packages and accompany broader socio-economic changes. In this thesis a conceptual framework which draws heavily on human capital theory is developed to address broad issues of farmer adjustment to simultaneous changes in many aspects of their environment. This framework is applied to farm survey data gathered from a sample within the Pilot Phase of the Mahaweli Project. The empirical analysis utilizes stochastic frontier production functions to obtain measures of technical and allocative efficiencies of individual farmers which reflect their technical and allocative abilities. The analysis was conducted at two levels, using market and economic prices. The findings show that different types of human capital have significantly different impacts on the ability of farmers to adjust to specific changes in technological and environmental factors; the major source of losses to the economy is shown to be farm level inefficiencies rather than price distortions; and the differential performance of farmers resulting from varying ability to adjust to disequilibria and the heterogeneity in farm micro environments are shown to result in an unequal distribution of income unanticipated by planners, but significant in terms of future consequences.
2 Ekanayake, S. A. B.. 1982. Agricultural production in the Galnewa region. In Wimaladharma, K. P. (Ed.), Land settlement experiences in Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Karunaratne & Sons. pp. 153-164.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.8 G744 WIM Record No: H02625)
3 Ekanayake, S. A. B.. 1987. Location specificity, settler type and productive efficiency: A study of the Mahaweli Project in Sri Lanka. Journal of Development Studies, 23(4):509-521.
Settlement ; Irrigable land ; Income distribution ; Developing countries / Sri Lanka / Mahaweli Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H03025)
Increasing agricultural production and the reduction of rural inequality in income distribution are major goals of irrigated land settlement in developing countries. The levels and determinants of observed differences in technical and allocative efficiency among farmers and the resulting inequality in a major irrigated land settlement scheme in Sri Lanka are discussed. The analysis is carried out in three separate stages. First, stochastic frontier production functions are estimated. Then farmer -specific measures of efficiencies are obtained on the basis of these functions. Finally, these efficiency measures are regressed on several explanatory variables. Differences in human capital endowments among settler types as well as uneven distribution of water are important determinants of farmer efficiency.
4 Ekanayake, S. A. B.; Jayasuriya, S. K. 1986. Change, adjustment and the role of specific experience: Evidence from Sri Lankan rice farming. Canberra, ACT, Australia: National Centre for Development Studies. Australian National University. 34p.
Rice ; Farming ; Irrigation programs ; Land tenure ; Farmers' attitudes / Sri Lanka / Mahaweli Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 633.18 G744 EKA Record No: H03644)
5 Ekanayake, S. A. B.. 1986. Location specificity, settler type and productive efficiency: A study of the Mahaweli Project in Sri Lanka. Canberra, ACT, Australia: National Centre for Development Studies. Australian National University. 32p. (Rural development working paper no.86/11)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 3931 Record No: H03643)
6 Ekanayake, S. A. B.; Shand, R. T. 1987. Technology environment and farmer efficiency in developing agriculture. Canberra, Australia: National Center for Development Studies. 25p. (National Center for Development Studies, rural development working paper 87/2)
Farmers ; Performance ; Rice ; Technology ; Models ; Productivity ; Irrigation programs ; Policy / Sri Lanka / Mahaweli Project
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.3 G744 EKA Record No: H04038)
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