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Role of Technology and Credit in Improving Farm Incomes in Rainfed Regions in Andhra Pradesh

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0974-0279.2014.00023.8
 
Title Role of Technology and Credit in Improving Farm Incomes in Rainfed Regions in Andhra Pradesh
 
Creator Rama Rao, C A
Samuel, J
Kumar, S
Raju, B M K
Dupdal, R
Venkateswarlu, B
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Improving the productivity of rainfed agriculture and income of farmers is important to achieve sustainable
and equitable growth. This paper has examined the role of technology and credit, the two important
factors of agricultural growth, in increasing farm incomes using farm-level data from three rainfed districts,
namely Adilabad, Mahabubnagar and Rangareddy of Andhra Pradesh for the year 2010-2011. For the
study, optimum crop plans were developed in a linear programming framework, and the results have
indicated considerable scope for enhancing farm incomes by re-allocation of resources, adoption of
improved technologies and enhancing access to capital or credit. Improved technology could increase
the net returns of farmers by 20-84 per cent, depending upon their farm categories in the study districts.
In the absence of credit, the net returns declined up to 80 per cent, especially for small farmers. In the
absence of credit, the suggested optimum farm plans are not income-maximizing, and were found to lead
to inefficient use of resources, especially of land.
 
Publisher Agricultural Economics Research Association (India)
 
Date 2014
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Rama Rao, C A and Samuel, J and Kumar, S and Raju, B M K and Dupdal, R and Venkateswarlu, B (2014) Role of Technology and Credit in Improving Farm Incomes in Rainfed Regions in Andhra Pradesh. Agricultural Economics Research Review, 27 (02). pp. 187-198. ISSN 0974-0279