Presented By

Arun Kumar Ray

CROP DIVERSIFICATION AND
MA 2 DPPP
2017-19
ITS IMPACT ON FARMERS
 Introduction
• Agriculture being the predominant sector
• Agriculture still employs more than 50% of the total workforce in the
country
• Sustainable economic growth, LH and food security- Long term aggregate
output of Ag. and improving productivity
• Potential for agricultural investment and growth- Resource diversification
for production of HVC
• First three decades of Green revolution-technological change, investment
in infrastructure, development of institutions, and enabling input and
output price policies
• Between 1996-97 – 2004-05 experience stagnant growth that followed by
increase in public investment, augmenting institutional credit, raising MSP
• Crop diversification in India refers as shift from low value to HVC
Literature Review
Factors and its implications
Name of the article
Crop diversification in India
Agriculture Diversification in
south Asia
Agriculture diversification:
Patterns and Policy
implications
Crop diversification in the Asia
pacific Region
Author’s Name Year Content
C R Hazra 2001 Factors for crop diversification
• Resource related, Technology
• House hold related
• Price related
• Institutional and infrastructure related
P Joshi 2004 • Gradually diversifying towards HVC
A Gulati • Most of are due to market demand, a very on policy implications
L Tewari 2008 • Highlighted the implications of diversification on food
P Birthal security, employment generation and export earnings.
• The macro-level information showed that the food security
was not adversely affected as a consequence of agricultural
diversification
Food and Agriculture 2003 • Among different factors for crop diversification, market forces
Organization are the main driving force for diversification
• Among the food grain crops, the area under superior cereals,
i.e., rice and wheat, is increasing; while that of coarse cereals
(millets) is on decline.
 Name of the article Author’s Year Content
Name
Changing sources of growth IFPRI 2014 Output prices play an important role in stimulating agricultural growth.
in Indian Agriculture discussion But price-led growth may not be sustainable in the long run. In India, the
Paper government sets a floor price (MSP) for many crops, excluding HVCs. Due
to this, when the MSP is high more diversification towards the crop
happened.
Food Demand and Supply P Joshi 2011 Demand side factors played an important role for crop diversification.
Projections in India K Kumar Between 1980s to 2009, India’s food basket underwent a significant
transformation away from food grains and towards high value
commodities. The changes in the food basket for rural and urban
consumers.
Cropping pattern and Crop Sodhganga Several advantages of crop diversifications: growth of agricultural
diversification: Conceptual production and productivity, stability of yields, reduced risk of crop
issues and empirical debates failure, enhancement of employment, conservation and enhancement of
natural resources
An analysis of the influence of L M Punith 2014 Though after mid nineties, there was growth in net irrigated area as well
agricultural policy on Kumar as total irrigated area, there was no improvements in the production of
changing cropping pattern in food crops. So this may impact on food security in long run.
India
 Implications on small holders
Name of the article
Agriculture Diversification in
south Asia
Food Demand and Supply
Projections in India
Changing sources of
growth in Indian
Agriculture
Author’s Name Year Content
P Joshi 2004 Most of the high-value crops are high labour requirement crops.
A Gulati Incidentally, the small and marginal farmers have abundant
labour, which can be effectively utilised for production of high-
value commodities.
P Joshi 2011 • The MSP not always benefitted to small farmers as they fail to
K Kumar provide large volume of produces. It creates disparities among
famers and within region
• Need of enhancement of competition in the market place and
improve market and transportation infrastructure to reduce
marketing transaction cost
IFPRI discussion 2014 • Diversification towards high-value commodities is a sustainable
Paper source of growth and provides a cushion to agricultural growth
• It provides an opportunity for smallholders to enhance their
income and escape poverty, as the demand for high-value food
crops is expected to accelerate
Objective of the Study
• To Study the trend and pattern of crop diversification and its
implications on farmers.

• To study the reasons behind the crop diversification.

• Suggestive policy measures at macro and micro level for

more sustainable and more inclusive growth
 Crop diversification will provide the farmers
with a wider choice in the production of a
Hypothesis variety of crops in a given area so as to expand
production related activities on various crops
and also to bring down the possible risk

Research Methodology

Locale of the Salepur Block, Cuttack district, Odisha

Study

Respondents
 Research Design

Development of
Field visit Analysis and Report
framework

(Sampling Design) (Observational Design)

(Statistical design)
Random stratified Schedule, FGD,
MS Excel, SPSS
sampling Observation

Research Type

Quantitative Qualitative
 Tools for data collection

Structure Schedule, Semi-structured Interview, FGD, Observation

Data analysis

Processing Analysis
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