An Empirical Analysis of Contract Farming in Andhra Pradesh - India: A case study of Maize and Sugarcane Crops
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9783659134746
Author
Perarapu Lakshmi Narayana
Producer
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Pages
320
Year of production
2012
This book contains status of Indian agricultural sector and contract farming in India. The review of earlier literature which dealt with agricultural studies in general and studies on contract farming in particular. The empirical analysis presents production function and cost function analyses on contract and non contract farming systems as well as performance of four contracting agencies for two selected crops in the study area for maize (Monsanto seeds, Pioneer PHI seeds) and for sugarcane (Sarvaraya Sugars Ltd and Deccan Sugars Ltd) are presented.