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Agrarian Relations, Landlessness and Inequality: Case Study of Irrigated and Unirrigated Regions of Undivided Kalahandi:

Ramya Ranjan Patel
- Vol. 9, Iss: 1, pp 62-82
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In rural areas, agriculture is the primary source of income and the income depends on the primary factor of production, land as mentioned in this paper, and the higher productivity of the land, the higher the income and gen...
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In rural areas, agriculture is the primary source of income, and the income depends on the primary factor of production, land. The higher the productivity of the land, the higher the income and gen...

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Agrarian studies: essays on agrarian relations in less-developed countries. Proceedings of the International Conference on 'Agrarian Relations and Rural Development in Less-Developed Countries', 3-6 January, 2002.

TL;DR: Research and analysis on the impact of globalization on rural societies and land reform in the South has been carried out by as mentioned in this paper, focusing on the role of globalization in rural communities and land redistribution.
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Tenancy Structure in Orissa: Implications for Agricultural Growth

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine basic features of tenancy in Orissa with data from various rounds of NSS and find that the terms and conditions of tenancy contracts are inequitable and regressive in nature favouring the lessors.
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Poverty and the Distribution of Land

TL;DR: The case in favour of redistributive land reform focusing on fragmented factor markets and systems of labour control is reviewed in this paper. But the authors do not consider the effect of land ownership on the overall performance of the economy.
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Size, Productivity, and Returns to Scale: An Analysis of Farm-Level Data in Indian Agriculture

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used individual farm-level data for nearly 1,000 Indian farms to analyze the well-known inverse relationship between farm size and output per acre, returns to scale, and imperfections in the labor market.

An Aspect of Indian Agriculture

Amartya Sen
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report that when family labour employed in agriculture is given an "imputed value" in terms of the ruling wage ratet much of Indian agriculture seems unremunerative.
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Rural poverty and agricultural performance in India

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the time series evidence on rural poverty over the past two decades in India and found that the incidence of poverty in all of India is inversely related to agricultural performance measured in terms of agricultural NDP per rural person.

Farm Size and Productivity: Understanding the Strengths of Smallholders and Improving Their Livelihoods

TL;DR: The relationship between farm size and productivity has been intensely debated in India as discussed by the authors, and some of them even questioned the inverse relationship betwee n farm sizes and productivity, and pointed out that the higher productivity of smallholdings would disappear with the adoption of superior technology, modernisation and growth in general.
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What is the primary source of income of people living in rural areas?

The primary source of income for people living in rural areas is agriculture, as mentioned in the paper.