Reform of agricultural markets in India: A critical analysis
Why is agricultural marketing so crucial for the farmer? Agriculture and allied sectors accounted for only 17.7 per cent of the GDP of India in 2020. Yet, as much as 54.6 per cent of India’s workforce, as per the Census of 2011, relied on this sector for employment and incomes. Although agricultural...
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| description | Why is agricultural marketing so crucial for the farmer? Agriculture and allied sectors accounted for only 17.7 per cent of the GDP of India in 2020. Yet, as much as 54.6 per cent of India’s workforce, as per the Census of 2011, relied on this sector for employment and incomes. Although agricultural households earned incomes from several sources, a major portion was still earned from agriculture and allied activities. As per the 2013 Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households (SAS), agricultural households earned 48 per cent of their income from crop cultivation, 12 per cent of their income from animal husbandry and 32 per cent of their income from wages. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1414022025-10-10T16:24:34Z Reform of agricultural markets in India: A critical analysis Narayanan, Sudha income supply chains commodities farmers employment households crops labour agriculture marketing trade cultivated land poverty rural areas debt agricultural trade Why is agricultural marketing so crucial for the farmer? Agriculture and allied sectors accounted for only 17.7 per cent of the GDP of India in 2020. Yet, as much as 54.6 per cent of India’s workforce, as per the Census of 2011, relied on this sector for employment and incomes. Although agricultural households earned incomes from several sources, a major portion was still earned from agriculture and allied activities. As per the 2013 Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households (SAS), agricultural households earned 48 per cent of their income from crop cultivation, 12 per cent of their income from animal husbandry and 32 per cent of their income from wages. 2022-10-01 2024-04-12T13:37:50Z 2024-04-12T13:37:50Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141402 en Limited Access Narayanan, Sudha. 2022. Reform of agricultural markets in India: A critical analysis. In Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture After Economic Liberalization, ed. R. Ramakumar. https://tulikabooks.in/catalog/product/view/id/22411 |
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| topic | income supply chains commodities farmers employment households crops labour agriculture marketing trade cultivated land poverty rural areas debt agricultural trade |
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