India’s vegetable boom: can the poor reap equal benefits?

Priya Deshingkar; Usha Kulnarni; Laxman Rao; Sreenivas Rao

India’s vegetable boom: can the poor reap equal benefits?

2003

Priya Deshingkar | Usha Kulnarni | Laxman Rao | Sreenivas Rao

India’s domestic market for vegetables is growing. The national and state governments have ambitious plans to increase production. As new forms of contractual and sharecropping relationships emerge between private dealers and farmers, what interventions are required to ensure that small and low-caste farmers are not left behind?

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AGROVOC Keywords

agriculture contract farming horticulture marketing sharecropping vegetables

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Publisher

id21 Development Research Reporting Service

Other Subjects

Small and marginal farmers; Food system; Andhra pradesh vegetable farming; Vegetable production; Agriculture and food.agricultural policy; Agriculture and food; Co-operatives india