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100			_aGupta, Shiv Kumar
245			_aContract farming for rural development
260			_c2002
300			_ap.13-19
362			_aFeb
520			_aThe Government is increasingly looking towards the corporate sector to augtment rural income and employment through agro-processing. Policy-makers see contract farming as an important avenue, which can ensure greater private sector participation. The new agricultural policy envisages acceleration of technology transfer, increased capital flow and assured markets for crops such as oil seeds, cotton and horticulture through contract farming - a system in which agricultural commodities are produced and supplied to buyers, mostly processors/exporters, under certain pre-negotiated conditions. - Reproduced.
650			_aAgriculture
650			_aRural development
773			_aKurushetra
909			_a51391
999			_c51391 _d51391