Economic Analysis of Contract Farming in Karnataka

This book is focuses on contract farming. Contract farming is an agreement between farmers and processing or marketing companies for the production and supply of farming produces under a forward agreement, generally at predetermined price. Contract Farming, in recent decades, has emerged as an institutional innovation for coordinating the agriculture production, processing and marketing operations carried out by different functionaries like farmers, agro-processing firms and marketing agencies. It is an instance of bringing the market to the farmers, which is explored by agribusiness firms. Contract Farming system not only meets the needs of the farmers and agro-processing firms but also empirical research proved that contract farming enhance the agriculture productivity and production.