Rural planning and the development of agriculture
1987
Job, M. (West Indies Univ., St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago). Dept. of Agricultural Econ. and Farm Mgt.)
Focuses on the externalities faced by planners in developing strategies for rural development and discusses the causes of the decline of the agricultural sector in the Caribbean economy such as inefficient use of idle lands on larger estates, low priority given to research and development and human capital investments, inadequate expenditure on marketing, lack of capital and purchase of inappropriate technology and inefficient public expenditure programmes. Constraints which may further hinder rural development include indiscriminate use of agricultural lands for housing and industries, the denudation of hillsides, tampering with natural water courses and the production and release of industrial and farm effluent into streams resulting in damage to fish and wildlife. Examines the role of the State in developing appropriate strategies to reduce these externalities and suggests a number of deterrents including the introduction of penalties for misuse of agricultural lands, taxes and fines on producers of the externalities, and the supply of information so as to increase public awareness of environmental degradation and its possible remedies
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