Farmer's Participation in Contract Farming in India: A Study of Bihar

Deepak Kumar Behera

Agricultural Economics Review, 2019, vol. Volume 20, issue Issue 2

Abstract: Promotion of contract farming is to uplift farmers by providing better services while linking with market. Thus, this paper is empirically identifying the factors that influence farmers to participate in the cooperative (producer’s organization) led contract farming and their intensity of participation from Bihar in India by surveying 350 contract and 250 non-contract households. By using Logistic model for farmer’s decision to engage in contract farming, it is found that participation in contracts is mainly driven by the landholding size, area under irrigation, availability of workforce in the household and distance to market. Surprisingly, it is observed that households with more number of male population are less likely to participate in contract farming while it is opposite when it comes to female labour force.

Keywords: Farm Management; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.330643

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