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

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Title Role of Technology and Credit in Improving Farm Incomes in Rainfed Regions in Andhra Pradesh$
 
Creator Rama Rao, C.A.
 
Contributor Samuel, Josily
Shalander, Kumar
Raju, B.M.K.
Dupdal, Ravi
Venkateswarlu, B.
 
Subject agricultural technology
rainfed agriculture
 
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.
 
Date 2014-12-31
2017-01-09T21:18:34Z
2017-01-09T21:18:34Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9345
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C. A. Rama Rao, Josily Samuel, Kumar Shalander, B. M. K. Raju, Ravi Dupdal, B. Venkateswarlu. (31/12/2014). Role of Technology and Credit in Improving Farm Incomes in Rainfed Regions in Andhra Pradesh$. Agricultural Economics Research Review, 27(2), pp. 187-198.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/5388
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher Agricultural Economics Research Association (AERA)
 
Source Agricultural Economics Research Review;27,(2014) Pagination 187,198