Agribusiness in Nepal

Factors influencing agriculture marketing Author: Govindarasan FACTORS INFLUENCING AGRICULTURE MARKETING By Dr. M. Govindarasan . MA., M.Phil., Phd. Project Associate, Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai - 600 036. and K.Valarmathi, Full Time Phd Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Presidency Colloge, Chennai 600 005. India's farming crisis The distress of farmers in India can be traced back to the introduction of technology-led, capital intensive farming in the heyday of the Green Revolution. With the advent of 'economic liberalisation' and the globalisation of trade, this distress has been aggravated. Unfair rules of the multilateral global trading regime have depressed global and domestic prices, and denied Indian farmers adequate remunerative prices. The poor farmer is squeezed between high input costs and low returns. Credit obtained from formal or informal banking systems is unable to bail him out of th...