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Book reviewed in this article: Farm Planning and Control. By C. S. Barnard and J. S. Nix. Cambridge University Press The United Kingdom Cereal Market— an econometric investigation into the effects of pricing policies. By David Colman International Trade in Temperate Zone Products. By F. O. Grogan. Oliver and Boyd (for the Agricultural Adjustment Unit, University of Newcastle upon Tyne) World Sugar Markets in a State of Flux. By Simon Harris and Ian Smith. Trade Policy Research Centre The World Tea Economy. By G. K. Sarkar. Oxford University Press Policy Integration in Canadian Agriculture. By R. W. Crown and E. O. Heady. Iowa State University Press Behavioral Change in Agriculture— Concepts and Strategies for Influencing Transition. Edited by J. P. Leagans and C. P. Loomis Inducing Technological Change for Economic Growth and Development. Edited by R. A. Solo and Everett M. Rogers. Michigan State University Press     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Welsh Cattle Drovers. By J. Colyer. University of Wales Press, Cardiff Agricultural Production Economics and Resource-Use. By Martin Upton. Oxford University Press Agricultural Policy and Economic Growth in Nigeria, 1962–1968. By J. C. Wells. Oxford University Press Agriculture and the State. Edited by Brian Davey, T. E. Josling and A. MacFarquhar Food and Poverty. By Radha Sinha. Croom Helm, London. 1976. 196 pages Rice and Risk— Decision Making among Low Income Farmers. By J. A. Bournassett     

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Book reviewed in this article: Land Reform and Economic Development. By PETER DORNER. Penguin Books. Controlled Environment Agriculture: A Global Review of Greenhouse Food Production. By DANA G. DALRYMPLE. U.S.D.A. Agricultural Expansion in the United Kingdom with Declining Manual Labour Resources. By A. P. POWER and S. A. HARRIS. Government Economic Service Principles of Farm Business Analysis and Management. By ROBERT O'CONNOR. Irish University Press Linear Programming Applications to Agriculture. By R. R. BENEKE and R. WINTERBOER. Iowa State University Press Financial Management in Agriculture. By JOHN A. HOPKINS, PETER J. BARRY and C. B. BAKER. Interstate Printers and Publishers, Danville, Illinois. Cost Factors of Agriculture. By K. N. SINGH et al. National Institute of Bank Management (India), Bombay. Agricultural Product Prices. By W. G. TOMEK and K. L. ROBINSON. Cornell University Press. Agricultural Marketing and Prices. By KEITH O. CAMPBELL. Cheshire, Melbourne. Natural Rubber and the Synthetics. By P. W. ALLEN. Crosby Lockwood, London. Technical Assistance Administration in East Africa. Edited by YASHPAL TANDON. The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Stockholm. Joe Duncan - The Scottish Farm Servants and British Agriculture. By J. H. SMITH. Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Economics and Rural Land-Use. By M. J. Stabler . Macmillan, London Agriculture in Development Theory. Edited by L. G. Reynolds Farming Finance. By Peter Clery . Farming Press, Ipswich The Man/Food Equation. Edited by F. Steele and A. Bourne . Academic Press, London Agricultural Research and Productivity. By Robert E. Evenson and Yoav Kislev . Yale University Press The Development of Tropical Lands: Policy Issues in Latin America. By Michael Nelson The Biology of Agricultural Systems. By C. R. W. Spedding . Academic Press, London Study of Agricultural Systems. Edited by G. E. Dalton . Applied Science Publishers     

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Book reviewed in this article: Population and Food Supply: Essays on Human Needs and Agricultural Problems. Edited by Sir Joseph Hutchinson . Cambridge University Press. Farming in Britain Today. By J. G. S. and Frances Donaldson . Allen Lane, Penguin Press, Hardmondsworth, Middlesex. 1969. Environment and Land Use in Africa. Edited by M. F. Thomsas and G. W. Whittington . Methuen, London. 1969. Problems and Approaches in Planning Agricultural Development. Proceedings of the Joint German Foundation/E.C.A./F.A.O. Seminar, Addis Ababa. 1967. Cotton and the Egyptian Economy, 1820–1914. By E. R. J. Owen . Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1969. The Economy of the Private Woodland in Great Britain. By R. Llorrain -Smith . Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford. Institute Paper No. 40. 1969. Report on the Marketing of Scottish Seed Potatoes. By F. G. Hay . National Farmers' Union of Scotland. 1969. Agricultural and Food Statistics—A Guide to Official Sources. Studies in official statistics No. 14. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. H.M.S.O., London. 1969. Food Statistics. A Guide to the Major Official and Unofficial U.K. sources. (Compiled by A. W. Ashby ). National Economic Development Office. Die landwirtschaftlichen Betriebsgrössen in der Sowjetunion in Statistik und Theorie. (The size of agricultural undertakings in the Soviet Union in statistics and theory.) By Ivan Lon?arevi? . Otoo Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. (No. 45, Giessen Studies of E. European agricultural and economic research.) 1969. Wörterbuch der Landwirtschaft—Ergänzungsband Russisch. By Nikolai Pas'chin . BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich. 1969.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A Year in the Life of a Field. By Michael Allaby. David & Charles, Newton Abbot. Agricultural Marketing. By J. W. Barker. Oxford University Press. 1981. vi + 226 pages. Economics and Resources Policy. Edited by John A. Butlin. Longman Group, Harlow. The Economics of Irrigation. By Ian Carruthers and Colin Clark. Liverpool University Press. Effective Writing in Advisory Work. By Graham Cherry and Nigel Harvey. Ministry of Agriculture, A Framework for Development: The EEC and the ACP. By Carol Cosgrove -Twitchett . EEC and the Third World: A Survey. Edited by Christopher Stevens Rural Housing: Competition and Choice. By Michael Dunn , Marilyn Rawson and Alan Rogers . The New South and the ‘New Competition’. By James E. Fickle . Imperfect Markets in Agricultural Trade. Edited by Alex McCalla and Timothy Josling . Seven Decades of Rural Social Work: From Country Life Commission to Rural Caucus. By Emilia E. Martinez -Brawley . Planning African Development. Edited by Glen Norcliffe and Tom Pinfold . Aquaculture Economics: Basic Concepts and Methods of Analysis. By Yung C. Shang . No Homes for Locals? By Mark Shucksmith . Food Security for Developing Countries. Edited by Alberto Valdes .     

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Book reviewed in this article: British Farming in the Great Depression: 1870–1914. By P. J. PERRY. David & Charles, Newton Abbot Agricultural Resources— an introduction to the farming industry of the U.K. Edited by ANGELA EDWARDS and ALAN ROGERS. Faber and Faber Agricultural Geography. By J. R. TARRANT. David and Charles, Newton Abbot The Organic Resources of Scotland: their nature and evaluation. Edited by JOY TIVY. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. The Value of Agricultural Land. By COLIN CLARK. Pergamon Press, Oxford. Terrain Evaluation. By C. W. MITCHELL. Longman, London. Land Reform — the Italian experience. By RUSSELL KING. Butterworth, London. 1973 The King's Vista. By D. R. DENMAN. Geographical Publications, Berkhamsted Tropical Farming Economics. By M. R. HASWELL. Longman, London. Intensive Crop Economics. By R. R. W. FOLLEY. Heinemann, London. Milk to Market— Forty Years of Milk Marketing. By STANLEY BAKER. Heinemann, London. Rural Life— patterns and processes. By GWYN E. JONES. Longman, London. RASAR: a Resource Allocation System for Agricultural Research. By D. G. RUSSELL. University of Stirling, Department of Industrial Science.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Resource Structure of Agriculture: an economic analysis. By KEITH COWLING, DAVID METCALF and A. J. RAYNER. Pergamon Press, Oxford. Thc Economics of the Common Marker. By D. SWANN. Penguin Books. 1970. 200 pages. Farm Appraisal and Valuation. By WILLIAM G. MURRAY. Iowa State University Press. 5th Edition, 1969. viii+534 pages. Milk Producrion. By C. S. BARNARD, R. J. HALLEY and A. H. SCOIT. W e Books, london. Principles of Operations Research-with applications to managerial decisions. By HARVEY M. WAGNER. Prentice-Hall. 1969. xxii+937 pages. Vertical Integration in Agriculture and the Role of the Cooperutives. By M. W. Bvrrwwclc. Central Council for Agricultural and Horticultural Cooperation, London. 1969. iv+40 pages. Agricultural Problems of Developing African Countries. By S. M. MAKINGS. Oxford University Press. 1968. viii+ 184 pages. Australia Wet or Dry? The Physical and Economic Limits to the Expansion of Irrigation. By B. R. DAVIDSON. Melbourne University Press. 1970. xiv+264 pages. Economic Approaches to Japanese Agriculture. Edited by MASANOBU KUWAHARA. Fuji Publishing Company. Tokyo. The value of the Weurher. By W. J. MAUNDER. Methuen, London. 1970. xxiv+ 388 pages.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Cereals in the United Kingdom-Production, Marketing and Distribution. By D. K. Britton. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1969. Agrarpolilik in rler E. W.G. Festschrift for Heinrich Niehaus edited by TH. DAMS, F. GERL, H. K d m and 0. STRECKER. Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munchen. 1968. viiJ-456 pages. Land Reform in Principle and Practice. By DOREEN WARRINER, Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1969. xx +457 pages. Irrigation Development Planning-aspects of Pakistan experience. By I. D. CARRUTHERS. Wye College, Ashford. Kent. 1968. Supply and Dernond of Selected Agricultural Products in Pakistan, 196 1–75. By S. A. ABBAS P I a/. Oxford University Press. 1969. x +236 pages. Developing Rural India: Plan and Pracrice. By JOHN W. MELLOR, THOMAS F. WEAVER, UMA J. LELE, and SHELDON R. SIMON. Cornell University Press: Oxford University Press. 1968. xxi+41 I pages. Planters and Speculators-Chinese and Eirropeatr Agriculrural Enterprise in Malaya, 1786–1921. By JAMES C. JACKSON. Oxford University Press. 1968. xix+312 pages. Agricultural Extension-Farm Extension Services in Australia. Britain and the United States of America. By DONALD B. WILLIAMS. Melbourne University Press: Cambridge University Press. 1969. xif218 pages. The European Peasantry-The Final Phase. By S. H. FRANKLIN. Methuen. London. 1969. xvif234 pages.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Patterns of Poverty in the Third World. By Charles Elliott. Praeger Special Studies, Martin Robertson, London The Assault on World Poverty— problems of rural development, education and health. By The World Bank The Nature of Poverty: A Case-history of the First Quarter-Century after World War II. By Margaret Haswell Pastoralism in Tropical Africa. Edited by T. Monod. Oxford University Press for International African Institute Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria. By Sara S. Berry Supply Responses of Primary Producers. By David Lim. University of Malaya Press Recreation in the Countryside: A Spatial Analysis. By J. T. Coppock and B. S. Duffield. Macmillan, London The Dynamic Structure of Household Expenditure in the Federal Republic of Germany: Analysis and Projection 1955-69/71 and 1975/77. By H. G. L. Gollnick. North-Holland, Amsterdam U.S. Agriculture In a World Context: Policies and Approaches for the Next Decade. Edited by D. Gale Johnson and John A. Schnittker From the St. Croix to the Potomac. By Sherman E. Johnson. Montana State University     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Rationalising Rustic Regulation. By E. SIEPE Measuring a Country's Gains From Research: Theory and Applications to Rural Research in Australia. By G. W. EDWARDS and J. W. FREEBAIR. Science und Technology Policy. Priorities of Governrments. By C. A. TISDEL. Economics and Resources Policy. By JOHN A. BUTLIN. Salinity in Irrigation and Water Resources. By DAN YARON. Microeconomics of Markers. By C. A. TISDEL. The farming Game. By J. P. MAKEHAM and L. R. MACOLM. Managing The Farm Business. By S. B. HARSH, L. J. CONNOR and G. D. SCHWAB. Agriculfural Finance. By W. F. LEE, M. D. BOEHLJE A. G. NELSON and W. G. MURRAY. Asian Village Economy at the Crossroads. By Y. HAYAMI and M. KIKUCHI. Log Pricing in Austrcllia. Policies, Practices und Consequences. By R. N. BYRON and J. J. DOUGLAS.     

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Barrett, A., Lawlor, J. and Scott, S. The Fiscal System and the Polluter Pays Principle. A Case Study of Ireland Eyzaguirre, P. (1996). Agricultural and Environmental Research in Small Countries: Innovative Approaches to Strategic Planning, John Wiley & Sons Hanley, N. And Folmer, H. (EDS.) (1998). Game Theory and the Environment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Matthews, A. (2000). Farm Incomes: Myths and Reality. Cork: Cork University Press Short, B., Watkins, C., Foot, W. and Kinsman, P. (1999). The National Farm Survey 1941–1943: State Surveillance and the Countryside in England and Wales in the Second World War.     

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Book reviews in this article: ALEXANDRATOS, N. (1990). European Agriculture: Policy Issues and Options to 2000. London BARDHAM, P. K. (ed.) (1989). The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions. Oxford: Clarendon Press BRENT, R. J. (1990). Project Appraisal for Developing Countries. New York: New York University Press GOLDIN, I. and KNUDSEN, O. (eds.) (1990). Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: Implications for Developing Countries. Washington GRENNES, T. (ed.) (1990). International Financial Markets and Agricultural Trade. Boulder HALLAM, D. (1990). Econometric Modelling of Agricultural Commodity Markets. London: Routledge LAMPKIN, N. (1990). Organic Farming. Ipswich: Farming Press MOYER, H. W. and JOSLING, T. E. (1990). Agricultural Policy Reform: Politics and Process in the EC and USA. PLUCKNETT, N., SMITH, J. H. and OZGEDIZ, S. (1990). Networking in International Agricultural Research. ROBINSON, G. M. (1990). Conflict and Change in the Countryside. STOECKEL, A. B., VINCENT, D. and CUTHBERTSON, S. (eds.) (1989). Macroeconomic Consequences of Farm Support Policies. TSAKOK, I. (1990). Agricultural Price Policy - A Practitioner's Guide to Partial-Equilibrium Analysis. ARNOLD, R. and VILLAIN, C. (1990). New Directions for European Agricultural Policy. KNUDSEN, O. and NASH, J. with contributions by BOVARD, J., GARDNER, B. and WINTERS, L. A. (1990). Redefining the Role of Government in Agriculture for the 1990s. OECD (1990). Modelling the Effects of Agricultural Policies. OECD Economic Studies No. 13, Winter 1989–1990. Paris OECD (1990). Reforming Agricultural Policies: Quantitative Restrictions on Production-Direct Income Support. Paris OECD (1990). Economic Accounts for Agriculture, 1974–1987. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development REES, J. (1990). Natural Resources: Allocation, Economics and Policy. Second Edition. Andover: Routledge, Chapman and Hall EICHER, C. K. and STAATZ, J. M. (eds.) (1990). Agricultural Development in the Third World. Second Edition. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press SAITO, K. A. and WEIDEMANN, C. J. (1990). Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers in Africa. PLUCKNETT, D. L., SMITH, N. J. H. and OZGEDIZ, S. (1990). International Agricultural Research: A Database of Networks.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The International Grain Trade: Problems and Prospects. By Nick Butler The State and Rural Economic Transformation: The Case of Punjab 1950–85. By G. K. Chadha The Harvest of Sorrow. By Robert Conquest Agriculture: People and Policies. Edited by Graham Cox, Philip Lowe and Michael Winter The Green Revolution Revisited: Critique and Alternatives. Edited by Bernhard Glaeser The Industrialization of the Countryside. Edited by Michael J. Healey and Brian W. Ilbery Land at the Centre: Choices in a Fast Changing World. By John C. Holliday Dynamic Programming: Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources. By John O. S. Kennedy Accelerating Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by J. W. Mellor, C. L. Delgado and M. J. Blackie American Green Power. By Alain Revel and Christophe Riboud. Translated by Edward W. Tanner     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Role 01 Agriculture in Economic Development. Edited by E. THORBECKE The Farm Business. By L. NORMAN and R. B. COOTE. Longman, London Crop Production: Cereals and Legumes. By B. F. BLAND. Academic Press, London Taxing Personal Wealth - an analysis of capital taxation in the United King-dom - history, present structure and future possibilities. By C. T. SANDFORD A Theoretical Approach to Rural Land-Use Patterns. By WILLIAM C. FOUND. Edward Arnold Agricultural Geography. By W. B. MORGAN and R. J. C. MUNTON. Methuen. London Man and Land - the fundamental issue in development. By E. H. JACOBY with CHARLOTTE F. JACOBY. A Century of Russian Agriculture - from Alexander I1 to Krushchev. By LAZAR VOLIN The Soviet Rural Community. Edited by J. R. MILLAR Men versus Systems - agriculture in the U.S.S.R. Poland and Czechoslovakia. By ARTHUR E. ADAMS and JAN S. ADAMS Socio-Economic Results of Land Reform in Taiwan. By M. M. C. YANG. East-West Center Press Farming Systems in the Tropics. By H. RUTHENBERG. Clarendon Press Agricultural Development in Indiaapos;s Districts. By DORRIS D. BROWN. Harvard University Press Reference Materials and Periodicals in Economics: Volume I: Agriculture. By E. L. FLTNDABURK     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Politics of Agricultural Research. By Don F. Hadwiger. University of Nebraska Press Science, Agriculture, and the Politics of Research. By Lawrence Busch and William B. Lacy Grain Marketing Economics. By Gail L. Cramer and Walter G. Heid Jr. John Wiley & Sons World Congress on Land Policy, 1980. Edited by Matthew Cullen and Sharon Woolery Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and Re-structuring of the EEC Budget. By Geoffrey Denton, David Harvey, John Marsh, Horst Reichenbach, Dieter Biehl and Pauline Neville-Jones Consumer Choice. By Gordon R. Foxall. Macmillan Press. 1983. viii + 149 pages Economic Theory of Co-operative Enterprises. Edited by Liam Kennedy Institutions and Policies of the European Community. Edited by J. Lodge. Frances Pinter Publishers The European Community: Bibliographical Excursions. Edited by J. Lodge. Frances Pinter Publishers Environmental Groups in Politics. By Philip Lowe and Jane Goyder. George Allen & Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, Herts The Formulation of Price Expectations: An Empirical Study of Woolgrowers in New South Wales. By Robyn Munro and B. S. Fisher London's Green Belt: Containment in Practice. By Richard Munton. George Allen & Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, Herts The Alcohol Economy: Fuel Ethanol and the Brazilian Experience. By Harry Rothman, Rod Greenshields and Francisco Rosillo Calle. Frances Pinter Publishers     

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Book reviewed in this article: Dorwood , A., Kydd, J. and Poulton , C. (eds.) (1998). Smallholder Cash Crop Production Under Market Liberalization Pinto , V. (1998). Gandhi's Vision and Values: The Moral Quest for Change in Indian Agriculture. London Potter , C. (1998). Against the Grain: Agri-environmental Reform in the United States and the European Union. Shoard , M. (1999). A Right to Roam: Should We Open Up Britain's Countryside? Oxford University Press     

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Book reviewed in this article: ORANI A Multisectoral Model of the Australian Economy. By PETER B. DIXON, B. R. PARMENTER JOHN SUTTON and D. P. VINCENT. Imperfect Markets in Agricultural Trade. By ALEX F. MCCALLA and TIMOTHY E. JOSLING Grain Export Cartels. By A. SCHMITZ, A. F. MCCALLA, D. O. MITCHELL and C. CARTER. Stabilisation of the International Grain Market. By J. C. BLOM. Agricultural Marketing and Prices. By K. O. CAMPBELL and B. S. FISHER The Agricultural Marketing System. By V. JAMES RHODES. Agricultural Marketing. By BY J. W. BARKER. The Australian Financial System After the Campbell Report. By J. O. N. PERKINS. Agricultural Research and Technology in Economic Development. By PER PINSTRUP-ANDERSEN. Wild Pigs: Environmental Pest or Economic Resource? By BY C. A. TISDELL     

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Book reviewed in this article: Distortion of Agricultural Incentives. Edited by Theodore. W. Schultz. International Trade and Agriculture: Theory and Policy. Edited by Jimmye S. Hillman and Andrew Schmitz. Rural Development: Learning from China. By Sartaj Aziz. Agriculfural Economics and Agribusiness: An Introduction. By G. L. Cramer and C. W. Jensen. Unpriced Values: Decisions without Market Prices. By J. A. Sinden and A. C. Worrell.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Policies in 1966. Organisation for Economic Co-operatoion and Development, Paris. 1967. Land and People. By Howick , Denman , Beresford , Pilcher , Nugent , Hofstee and Black , Leonard Hill. 1967. Agricidtural Producers and their Markets. Edited by T. K. Warley . Basil Blackwel. Oxford. 1967. Alternatives for Balancing World Food Prodution and Needs. Iowa State University Center for Agricultural and Economic Development. Iowa State University Press. 1967. Agriculture and Economic Development: The Relevance of the Japanese Experience. By Brucef F. Johnston Food Research Institute Studies. VI, No. 3. 1966. The Economics of Irrigation. By Colin Clark Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1967. Experiences with Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa. Vol. 1. The Synthesis. Vol. II. The Case Studies. John C. de Wilde et al. Published for The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development by John Hopkins Press. 1967. Rural Land Administration iil New Zealand. By J. Bruce Brown (Editor) et al. Oxford University Press for New Zealand Institute of Public Administration. 1966. Britain and A ristrnlia 1831–1855: a Study in Iniperiul Relations and Crown Lands Administration. By Peterb Burroughs . Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. Trained Manpower for To-morrow's Agriculture. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, 1966. Farm Policies arid Po1icies in the Triiriiaii Yeurs. By Allen J. Matusow . Harvard University Press. Cambridge. Massachusetts. 1967. Selected Readings to Accompany Getting Agriciiltiire Moving; essentials for development and modernization. Edited by Raymond E. Borton Published by the Agricultural Development Council, New York, 1966. Cotton Kingdom of the New South: A History of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta from reconstruction to the Twentieth Century. By Robert L. Brandfon . Harvard University Press. 1967. The Co-operative Movement in India. By E. M. Hough . 5th Edition revised by K. Madhava Das . Oxford University Press. 1966. Khartoum's Food Supplies: A Study in Production and Marketing of Six Basic Food St?iffs By M. C. Simpson Department of Rural Economy. University of Khartoum. Research Bulletin No. 2. 1966.