Household Crop Incomes Among Small Farmers

This article examines incomes from crop production in West Bengal. Specifically, it analyses the levels and determinants of household crop incomes across regions and socio-economic classes. It is based on an examination of household survey data collected by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) in three villages located in different agro-ecological regions of West Bengal. The article discusses how farm business incomes vary across the study villages. We found that there was not much difference in farm business incomes between an advanced village and a relatively backward village in the survey year. This was due mainly to a crash in potato prices in the advanced village. The analysis of potato cultivation across socio-economic classes covers various aspects of potato cultivation, such as the selection of varieties, contract farming arrangements, different components of cost, and marketing channels. In Panahar, where the major commercial crop was potato, diversification to potato cultivation had a negative impact on incomes, as potato prices crashed in the survey year

Agrarian society · Agricultural diversification · Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · BENGAL · Biology · Business · Crop · Economics · Geography · Socioeconomics · Survey data collection · West bengal · Agricultural Economics and Practices · Agricultural risk and resilience · Mathematics · Social and Economic Development in India · Marketing

• Collective farming and women’s livelihoods

  Madhav Tipu Ramachandran, Arindam Das•Canadian Journal of Development…•2020

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