The Comilla co-operative approach and the prospects for broad-based green revolution in Bangladesh

Observers have argued that, although Bangladesh has not yet experienced the Green Revolution in any real sense, the Comilla co-operative experiment has been fairly successful not only in the adoption but also in the equitable distribution of the benefits of the new agricultural technology, and that the spread of the Comilla-like diffusion programmes can be expected to yield similar results in other parts of Bangladesh. This paper contends that the Comilla experience does not lend support to such optimism.