Agricultural Diversification – An Opportunity for Smallholders (A Case Study of Sonipat District of Haryana)
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 1
Abstract
The present study focused on the nature and extent of diversification of small farmers owning land below two hectares. For the present study, district Sonipat of Haryana state was purposively selected. Furthers, for the empirical analysis; three villages were selected for conducting household survey of farmer. All data pertaining to study like area, production, input use and user perception were analyzed to identify the constraints and potential of small farmers while producing High Value Commodities (HVC) like fruits, vegetables, dairy and poultry product etc. The extent of diversification was assessed using “Herfindahl Index Method”. The study revealed that the extent of diversification amongst small farmers is high as compared to larger farmers. It is found that Small farmers have abundant family labour and they tend to put more area under HVC crops of their total land availability. However, Farmers owning land between 2 to 4 acres are more flexible & access to required facility like credit, formal agricultural training etc. which shows their positive impact on diversification.
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Parveen Kumar, Sunil Kumar
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