Social Capital formation through Farm Women Groups in Vegetable Production in Kollam District of Kerala

Chandran, Revathy; Sreedaya, G.S.

doi:10.26725/jee.2016.1.28.5603-5606

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“…Additionally, pest and disease outbreaks (60.90) represent a notable restraint in organic farming, as preventive measures are the only viable means of managing them in organic practices. This finding is in line with findings of Chandran & Podikunju [12]. The foul odour emitted by some organic inputs (47.30) serves as a constraint for certain farm laborers and family members.…”

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An Analysis of Constraints Faced by Organic Farmers in the Cauvery Delta Zone of Tamil Nadu, India

Logesh,

Ramasubramanian,

Vennila

et al. 2023

IJECC

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Aim: This study examines the multifaceted challenges encountered by organic farmers operating within the Cauvery Delta Region of Tamil Nadu. Study Design: Ex-post facto research design was used to investigate and reveal the challenges that organic farmers have encountered over the preceding years. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in the Cauvery Delta Zone of Tamil Nadu. Five districts were selected for the study namely, Thanjavur, Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai and Tiruchirapalli. Respondents were interviewed during the period of June 2023 – July 2023. Methodology: The study aimed to include 40 organic farmers from each district, resulting in a collective sample size of 200 respondents across these districts, facilitated through snowball sampling technique. A well – structured interview schedule which included the major constraints faced by organic farmers of the CDZ was developed based on review of past literatures and discussion with experts in the area of organic farming. Based on the ranks given by the respondents to the constraints, the data was analyzed and conclusive results were obtained using the Rank Based Quotient (RBQ) technique. Constraints were studied in 7 different dimensions namely, labour, technical, service and supply, credit and economic, environmental, cropping and marketing constraints. Results: The prime constraints with a higher RBQ values identified in these dimensions were, Labour scarcity due to MGNREGA (93.13), Cumbersome (Slow and complicated) certification process (79.90), Lack of supportive institutions for organic farming (91.80), Inadequate subsidies for organic agriculture (92.75), Use of polluted river water for irrigation (93.90), Lack of inputs specifically for weed management (96.63), Challenge in finding proper marketing channel (90.38). In addition to this, some minor issues were also identified as constraints in the study area. Conclusion: Through an in-depth exploration of these challenges, the study aims to provide insights that can guide policy makers, practitioners, and stakeholders in devising strategies to overcome the obstacles faced by organic farmers in the Cauvery Delta Zone which could have a threshold effect in boosting up the organic productivity of the state.

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An Analysis of Constraints Faced by Organic Farmers in the Cauvery Delta Zone of Tamil Nadu, India

Logesh,

Ramasubramanian,

Vennila

et al. 2023

IJECC

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“…Though these studies deal with the constraints in registration and maintenance of GI, they do not reflect the specific issues in India. And, the recent studies of constraint analysis in farming sector in India had focused on various issues like, entrepreneurship, adoption of technologies, use of ICT and covid-19 induced lockdown, but not GI (Kobba et al, 2020;Roy et al, 2022;Gupta et al, 2020;Chandran et al, 2021;Singh et al, 2021). Therefore, the present study was conducted in order to explore the specific constraints associated to GI usage in Indian scenario.…”

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Constraints Associated to Geographical Indication Usage: Experts and Producers Perspective

Niranjan

Jha

Dominic

et al. 2023

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The benefits associated with Geographical Indications (GI) are largely underutilized by most of the registered goods in India, with few exceptions. Therefore, an exploratory study was conducted with experts in the field of GI and also with producers of the GI registered agricultural and food products of Tamil Nadu in order to find reasons for poor GI usage and constraints perceived by the producers of the registered goods. The experts (n=14) reported, lack of awareness among producers about the GI and its benefits, lack of awareness among consumers about the uniqueness and originality of the good, and the absence of quality maintenance mechanism in the registered territory as reasons for poor usage. According to the producers (n=241), lack of awareness, narrow price difference between GI products and their non-GI counterparts and consumer’s preference for low price over quality were the top constraints that pull the producers from using GI.

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Social Capital formation through Farm Women Groups in Vegetable Production in Kollam District of Kerala

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An Analysis of Constraints Faced by Organic Farmers in the Cauvery Delta Zone of Tamil Nadu, India

An Analysis of Constraints Faced by Organic Farmers in the Cauvery Delta Zone of Tamil Nadu, India

Constraints Associated to Geographical Indication Usage: Experts and Producers Perspective

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