Sukhpal Singh

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the rationale, practice, and problems of contract farming in vegetable crops in the agriculturally developed Indian Punjab which has faced the problem of sustainability of growth since the early 1980s and found that agribusiness firms deal with relatively large producers and their contracts, which are biased against the farmer, perpetuate the existing problems of the farm sector such as high chemical input intensity and social differentiation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the rationale, practice and implications of contract farming under the MNCs in vegetable crops in the Indian Punjab from the new institutional economics perspective, and found that the contracts are biased against the farmer, and the contract crops perpetuate many of the existing problems of the farming sector like high chemical input intensity, unstable future incomes, and social differentiation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined contract farming and its situation in India on the basis of nature of contracts, nature of contract growers, practice and implementation of contract farming, techniques, practices and changing dynamics.