Anand Vadivelu, G and Wani, S P and Bhole, L M and Pathak, P and Pande, A B (2001) An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Land Size, Ownership, and Soybean Productivity- New Evidence from the Semi-Arid Tropical Region in Madhya Pradesh, India : Natural Resource Management Program Report no. 4. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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The study was funded through the Asian Development Bank project (RETA 5812) “Improving Management of Natural Resources for Sustainable Rainfed Agriculture”. This report is based on the research conducted for the M.Phil. thesis of the first author. We are especially thankful to Dr D Parthasarthy, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai for his initiative to collaborate with ICRISAT. We are extremely thankful to Mr Somnath Roy, Mr S Rao and their team at BAIF Development Research Foundation, Bhopal and M/s R K Verma, S K Dixit, D P Gupta, R K Dwivedi, R S Yadav, Hemanth and their team at BAIF, Lateri watershed for the support in the data collection. We thank Mr P Parthasarathy Rao, Scientist (Economics), Socioeconomics and Policy Program, ICRISAT for his comments on an earlier draft. The assistance of Mr S L N Reddy in data analysis is acknowledged. Ms Sheila Vijayakumar has provided invaluable assistance by editing this manuscript. We are indebted to Mr P Rama Krishna and Mr K N V Satyanarayana in formatting and page-setting the manuscript. We are grateful to the farmers and share croppers who spared their time to talk to
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ICRISAT’s intervention in the project “Improving Management of Natural Resources for Sustainable Rainfed Agriculture” funded by the Asian Development Bank aims to increase the productivity and sustainability of the medium and high-water holding capacity soils in the intermediate rainfall ecoregion in India, Vietnam, and Thailand. The study examines the productivity of soybean during the 1999 rainy season in one of the benchmark sites in Lateri Watershed, Vidisha district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The productivity of the owner-operated farms is marginally higher at 0.72 t ha-1 compared to 0.68 t ha-1 among share cropper-operated farms. The productivity of evaluated trial farms in Lalatora micro-watershed, which is used as a demonstration micro-watershed for evaluating improved management practice, has been high at 1.1 t ha-1 due to the adoption of better input management practices. The profitability for the landlords and share croppers is documented and evidence is presented on the exploitative nature of the share cropping contracts, especially the 20:80 contract. The low productivity has been due to waterlogging which occurred due to heavy rains during the sowing period. The implications of the endemic nature of the low productivity under a liberalized trade regime is analyzed and suggestions are offered to the stakeholders on the future intervention strategies to tackle the problem of rainy season fallow, exploitative land tenancy arrangements, waterlogging, and equity issues.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Monograph) |
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| Subjects: | Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics |
| Depositing User: | Mr Sanat Kumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2011 03:53 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2011 04:09 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/2226 |
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