This paper is discussed the Anhui agricultural industrialization using the method of principal component analysis. The indexes include per capita net income of farmers in Anhui province, non-agricultural employment rate, urbanization rate, the total power of agricultural mechanization, universal ratio of rural water, car villages, the proportion of industrial waste water by sewage treatment in ...

By all accounts, Bank, Pakistan faces increased difficulties in expanding its agricultural sector. For its part, the government is gradually withdrawing from its historical policy of direct intervention and adopting a more market oriented strategy. In this strategy, the private sector will be expected to play the major role in providing capital to the agricultural sector, with government’s rema...

The responsibility for the content lies solely with the author(s). Comments and critique by readers of this series are highly appreciated. Summary Agricultural programs are often criticized as being expensive and wasteful. However, spurred by the ideas of Nobel Prize winner Gary BECKER many studies in agricultural policy have implicitly assumed or tried to test whether, given the political cons...