Financing the small and marginal farmers whose repaying capacity is obviously low is indeed a formidable task in India. The institutional agencies like the co-operatives are required to face this challenge if they have to prove their worth. Since many years the co-operatives for financing agriculture in India have been facing the problem of overdues. Besides they have not successfully accomplished the task of linking credit with marketing. The problem of overdues ...
Human beings migrate because they are living beings with experiences and aspirations. There is no dispute regarding the fact that rural-to-urban migration is a component of population change. Its impact is felt in the region where both 'push' and 'pull' factors operate with varying intensity. We can visualise the possibility of positive effects of rural-to-urban migration overtaking negative effects in a specific regional context. Rural ...
History is replete with examples to prove that an organised, bold and assertive tenantry is a prerequisite for the successful implementation of tenancy reforms. Protracted tenancy movements can be instrumental in making the tenants, who are generally poor peasants, increasingly conscious of their rights. The class composition of tenancy movements would decide whether the benefits of tenancy reforms reach the weaker sections of the rural society. As the present ...
The development of agro based industries can help to realise the various linkages or inter-relationships between industry and agriculture. The Ninth Five Year Plan aims at the objective of attaining rural development of agriculture for attaining rural development. If the agro based industries are developed it will be possible to reduce regional imbalances and also to realise the essential goal of rural development of generating employment opportunities on a large ...
The Karnataka Land Reforms Act of 1974 was regarded by some as one of the most radical land reform legislations in India. The most important provision in the act was the abolition of tenancy, by converting tenants into owners. This comparative study brings to light the fact that in spite of the realisation of the goal of equity as a result of tenancy reform, the goal of raising productivity may not be realised to any substantial extent if there are serious ...