Contract Farming in Uttar Pradesh and Its Effect on Employment and Poverty

Abstract

Economy of Uttar Pradesh facingthemany problems which are low productivity, Unemployment, Lack of Input availability; continue down warding their socio-economic condition. And in the ground of these problems contract farming can be a solution for it, which is already worked in the economy in the type of unorganized and most of their agreements are oral with the farmers without any legal provision in the economy of Uttar Pradesh. newlineThus, building on Rehber s (2007) definition, we can tentatively define contract farming as: newline A contractual arrangement between a farmer and a firm, whether oral orwritten, which provides resources and/or specifies one or more conditions ofproduction, in addition to one or more marketing conditions, for an agriculturalproduct, which is non-transferable . newlineThis study reveals the prospectus and importance of contract farming in the respects of economy of Uttar Pradesh, if Cf benefited the farmers directly or indirectly by providing the better income, with good Employability and also seeing high adaptation behavior of the farmers to participate in contract farming arrangement. newline newline