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Farmers’ Income, Indebtedness and Agrarian Distress in India

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Title Farmers’ Income, Indebtedness and Agrarian Distress in India
 
Creator Reddy, A Amarender
Raju, S S
Bose, Arnab
 
Subject Agriculture
Socio Economics and Extension
 
Description The paper examines farmers’ income, indebtedness and
suicides. It concludes that income of farmer is low mainly due to low harvest prices, high cost of inputs and small operational holding size. Low incomes coupled with higher consumption needs force small farmers into high-interest debt trap. There is a need to increase public investment in farm infrastructure, strengthen direct benefit transfer schemes for purchase of inputs, improve institutional credit delivery mechanisms and widen safety nets in rural areas. The recent farm policy related to encouraging Farmer Producer Organizations and contract farming could potentially increase small farmers bargaining power and scale economies to utilise market opportunities.
 
Publisher Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD) Lucknow
 
Date 2020
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15893/1/The%20Microfinance%20Review_2020_S%20S%20Raju.pdf
Reddy, A Amarender and Raju, S S and Bose, Arnab (2020) Farmers’ Income, Indebtedness and Agrarian Distress in India. The Microfinance Review, 12 (1). pp. 20-38.