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Revisiting Tenancy and Agricultural Productivity in Southern India: Insights from Longitudinal Household Surveys

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Title Revisiting Tenancy and Agricultural Productivity in Southern India: Insights from Longitudinal Household Surveys
 
Creator Deb, U
Pramanik, S
Khan, P E
Bantilan, C
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The study reconfirmed prevalence of reverse tenancy in dryland agriculture in Southern India in the recent years (2009-11) as was in the mid-seventies. Household level panel data collected from six villages by ICRISAT under its Village Level Studies (VLS) and Village Dynamics Studies (VDS) program were used. Area under tenancy has increased in the recent years, mostly in the form of share cropping. Panel Data Probit analysis revealed that likelihood of a household to be a tenant is positively linked with number of agricultural worker, bullock ownership and male-headed household. Land ownership, age and education of household head, and dependence on non-farm income had negative association. Crop yield and profitability were generally higher in owned land than that of land under tenancy. Reduction of reverse tenancy in dryland agriculture will require risk reducing technologies (drought-resistant varieties, supplementary irrigation) and availability of critical inputs (for example, bullock for intercultural operations).
 
Date 2015-08
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9009/1/Revisiting%20Tenancy.pdf
Deb, U and Pramanik, S and Khan, P E and Bantilan, C (2015) Revisiting Tenancy and Agricultural Productivity in Southern India: Insights from Longitudinal Household Surveys. In: Agriculture in an Interconnected World, August 08 -14, 2015, Milan, Italy.