led supply chain process. The other way to minimise risk would be to promote crop diversification by the existing Boards. From the analysis of diversification at the regional level using secondary information on price ...

This paper challenges the often held view regarding the limits to growth set by natural resource intensity by taking the case of Kerala economy which despite being dominated by resource based sectors has experienced ...

Land has been a deeply contested issue in all tea growing states in India, especially in the context of the leasing processes, conflicts over revenue lands, land rights of the landless people, expansion of the small ...

Given the key role of plantation sector in fostering inclusive development, this paper has been an attempt at locating the spaces on exclusion in the marketing of cardamom and the bearing of e-auctions in addressing ...

The tea value chain is structured along a hierarchical relationship with the global buyers dictating terms to the producers. An inherently asymmetric balance of power relation increases the vulnerabilities of the ...

A few countries produce most of the world’s output of tea and coffee. Therefore, the major exporting countries are likely to exercise market power, which implies that exporters have some control over the prices that ...

With a view to address the issue of decline in the yield of Arabica coffee on account of various factors, the Central Coffee Research Institute (CCRI) in India introduced Chandragiri variety. This study examines the diffusion ...

Replacement of natural vegetation with various plantation crops is a global phenomenon. Rubber was introduced in Kera1a as one of the plantation crops in the beginning of this century. At present it covers about 21% of ...

This paper attempts to examine the process of peasant migration from Travancore to Malabar and the resultant agrarian transformation triggered by the development monoculture and the socio-economic impacts on the migrant ...

This paper examines the potential gender impacts of the trade reforms in plantation agriculture in the emerging context of the two prominent FTAs, viz. the Indo-ASEAN and the proposed EU-India FTA. The focus of the ...