2. A REPRISE OF THEORETICAL ASPECTS
The early writers, for example Rosestein-Rodan (1943), Lewis (1954), Scitovosky
(1954), Hirchman (1958), Jorgeson (1961), Fei and Ranis (1961) and others
emphasized the role of agriculture only as a primary supplier of wage goods
and raw materials and abundant labour supply to industry (Johnston and
Mellor, 1961 and Vogel, 1994). The role of agriculture in the transformation of a
developing economy was seen as ancillary to the central strategy of accelerating
the pace of industrialization (Vogel, 1994).