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Agricultural cooperatives in Gujarat, India: Agents of equity or differentiation?

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  • Alnoor Ebrahim

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Agricultural cooperatives have been promoted in India's economic development programme as a means of encouraging large-scale agricultural production while enhancing community cooperation and equity. Focusing on sugar cooperatives in Gujarat state of western India, the author shows that these cooperatives have been successful in promoting large-scale agricultural production and in improving the economic and social standing of their members. This success, however, has been built upon the exploitation and pauperisation of local landless communities and migrant labourers. As a result, there has been an increased differentiation of the peasantry in south Gujarat.

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  • Alnoor Ebrahim, 2000. "Agricultural cooperatives in Gujarat, India: Agents of equity or differentiation?," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(2), pages 178-188, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:10:y:2000:i:2:p:178-188
    DOI: 10.1080/09614520050010214
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    1. Institutions & Producer organisations & Community and Collective organisations, 2019. "Community and Collective Organisations for Sustainable Agricultural Development in India: Experience, Challenges and Policy," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 74(01), March.
    2. Balakumar, Suganya & Maitra, Debasish, 2023. "Do political connections or elite capture matter in access to financial services? Evidence from Indian households," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 39(C).

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