This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India, bringing together … data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses and 484 contract farmers from multiple … commodity sectors. The central argument of this paper is that contract farming relationships in India are seen more as …

Indian agriculture is under policy reforms for some time now. One of the issues it faces is that of lack of viability … reorganizaing the production systems are being attempted in the form of contract farming and corporate farming. At the state level …, laws are being amended to facilitate the practice of contract farming and corporate farming. Where contract farming means …