Features of the agrarian market in Odisha: Insights from a field survey
By: Alha, Akhil
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BookPublisher: Man & Development Description: 42(1), Mar, 2020: p.71-88.Summary: This paper explores agrarian relations in Odisha and the change occurred therein in rent years when the stat’s agriculture is undergoing a pervasive agrarian crisis. On the basis of primary data collected from four villages, it finds that the volume of agricultural employment as well as long-term labour contracts r on a decline. While the structure of tenancy in partially imitated villages has not undergone any major change in the past years, absentee landlordism as well as leasing under fixed rent in cash is on rise, while fixed produce tenancy is declining in the irrigated villages. Though non-farm opportunities generated in nearby urban areas are mostly precarious and insecure in nature, they have helped rural households in sustaining their livelihoods. These opportunities along with an improved coverage of banks and self-half groups (SHGs) in extending credit have helped in loosening the bond of unfreedom in labour relations to agriculture is very slow, the state agencies must intervene to bring agricultural sector out of the crisis through higher public investment in the form of harnessing irrigation potential available in the state, extension of credit and legitimising leasing in the state. – Reproduced
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This paper explores agrarian relations in Odisha and the change occurred therein in rent years when the stat’s agriculture is undergoing a pervasive agrarian crisis. On the basis of primary data collected from four villages, it finds that the volume of agricultural employment as well as long-term labour contracts r on a decline. While the structure of tenancy in partially imitated villages has not undergone any major change in the past years, absentee landlordism as well as leasing under fixed rent in cash is on rise, while fixed produce tenancy is declining in the irrigated villages. Though non-farm opportunities generated in nearby urban areas are mostly precarious and insecure in nature, they have helped rural households in sustaining their livelihoods. These opportunities along with an improved coverage of banks and self-half groups (SHGs) in extending credit have helped in loosening the bond of unfreedom in labour relations to agriculture is very slow, the state agencies must intervene to bring agricultural sector out of the crisis through higher public investment in the form of harnessing irrigation potential available in the state, extension of credit and legitimising leasing in the state. – Reproduced
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