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Non-Farm Income as an Instrument for Doubling Farmers' Income Evidences from Longitudinal Household Survey

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Title Non-Farm Income as an Instrument for Doubling Farmers' Income Evidences from Longitudinal Household Survey
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Creator P.C. Meena
Ranjit Kumar
N. Sivaramane
SANJIV KUMAR
K. Srinivas
A. Dhandapani
Elias Khan
 
Subject Agricultural income, non-farm income, farmers, social category
 
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The study has analysed different sources of income for the rural households in Semi-Arid Tropic (SAT)
region of India using the longitudinal household level data for the period 2009 to 2014. The results
indicate that the share of non-farm income is substantial and increasing even for the large farm households.
The non-farm income is imperative for the landless and smallholders. This paves the way for securing
livelihood of landless and smallholder households by diversifying towards non-farm activities. The study
has emphasized on higher agricultural credit and irrigation infrastructure for medium and large farmers.
This will provide remunerative income opportunities from agriculture so that this group will continue to
remain in farming activities which will help in increasing the agricultural production and will not jeopardize
the ultimate goal of food security. Two important inferences drawn from the study are: (i) to make farming
attractive enough, transformative changes are required, particularly for creating market for the produce,
and (ii) adequate push is needed to promote secondary agriculture, like primary processing, value addition,
etc. along with other non-farm activities in the rural areas.
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Date 2018-11-12T11:47:03Z
2018-11-12T11:47:03Z
2017
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10574
 
Language English
 
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