LABOUR AND ENTERPRISE IN AGRICULTURE 27 (leaving aside the question of equity) in foodgrains on the basis of modern inputs and infrastructure.6 Recent statements about changes in priorities envisaged in the ensuing plans and the need to allocate 40 percent of total public resources for agriculture arc the forebodings of an intensification of the same trend. It needs to be noted that the so-called New Strategy of intensive agricultural development later trumpeted as the Green Revolution was basically aimed at short-circuiting the problem of broad based self-sustained growth with the participation of the overwhelming masses of the smaller peasantry that really constitute the basis of Indian agriculture. It was conceived to develop enclaved areas of production supported by subsidised inputs such as irrigation, fertiliser and pesticides and enjoying price benefits at the cost of the relatively deficit areas of the country. Even a cursory glance at the facts relating to the impact of the Green Revolution both within the enclaves and outside cannot but lead one to conclude that it has led to a snowballing of all the contradictions inherent in Indian agriculture. Further the strategy itself is directly linked with the recommendations of the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and is a direct lesult of the investment in biological research mainly financed by similar interests in Mexico and the Philippines. The recommendations made for the Third World countries for solving the problem of their growing population without resort to any radical restructuring of their society are not only politically motivated but also had its immediate pay off in terms of the technological dependence of the under developed world on the developed capitalist countries led by USA.7 Results of the Strategy The principal result of the shift in emphasis towards agriculture in the economy as a whole and from the altered growth strategy in the agricultural sector itself, has been the intensification of contradictions between different classes as well as between different regions and sectors. In other words an appraisal of the performance of the agricultural sector during the recent past cannot but lead one to the chronic yet relevant question of^growth versus equity^. On this question, notwithstanding the differences in emphasis and methods of quantification, the following points emerge as a consensus of findings by recent researchers evaluating the impact of the New Technology8: i) A moderate growth rate of 2.72 in food and of 2.45 in all crops between the trienniums 1962-63/64-65 and 1970- 71/ 72-73 has enabled1 the country to overcome the pre-independence stagnation in agriculture and to free itself to a HttHted extent from the drag of food deficit which for a long time had been foiling all attempts at planned' economic growth in the country. ii) This has been possible through a selective approach of concentrating public investments in areas already better endowed with