From Food Crops to Cash Crops: Has it Caused Distress? - Case of Maharashtra

From Food Crops to Cash Crops: Has it Caused Distress? - Case of Maharashtra

[...]there is also high cost of production of cotton coupled with decline in wholesale price. [...]although both these cash crops have the potential to improve the earnings of farmers, they have actually caused distress which has in some cases is manifested in suicides concentrated in cotton growing...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Indian journal of agricultural economics 2016-07, Vol.71 (3), p.357-357
Hauptverfasser: Shroff, Sangeeta, Kajale, Jayanti
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Agricultural economics
Cotton
Crops
Irrigation
Maharashtra India
Production costs
Productivity
Workforce
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Zusammenfassung:[...]there is also high cost of production of cotton coupled with decline in wholesale price. [...]although both these cash crops have the potential to improve the earnings of farmers, they have actually caused distress which has in some cases is manifested in suicides concentrated in cotton growing areas.
ISSN:0019-5014