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Factors influencing the farmers to enter into contract farming

Volume : 95
Issue: Jan-jun
Pages: 104 - 107
Published: May 05, 2023
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Abstract


The research study was conducted in Madukkarai and Kinathukadavu blocks of Coimbatore district for cotton crop and Attur and Gangavalli blocks were selected in Salem district for coleus crop, with a sample of 100 contract farmers for each crop. To avail assured price, to get quality seeds, to get inputs in time, to get effective buy back arrangements, to avail institutional credit, and to avail assured market facility were the major motivating forces that made the respondents to opt contract farming.

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104 - 107
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Contract farming performance motivating factors coleus cotton.
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