00904pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002100040245003300061260000900094300001600103362001100119520056100130650001700691650001600708773003400724180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMulji, Sudhir J.  aAgriculture and unemployment  c2003  ap.1463-466.  a12 Apr  aIt is generally recognised that agriculture has a pool of potential surplus manpower that can be redirected elsewhere and incentives have been proposed to guide agricultural labour into industry. But few have argued that the thrust should be to reorganise agriculture and that economic forces will divert surplus labour in the most profitable direction, whether industries or services. what is proposed here is a large, even if possibly wasteful, investment in agriculture for the purpose particularly of bringing arid land under cultivation. - Reproduced.  aUnemployment  aAgriculture  aEconomic and Political Weekly