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Punjab: An Intertesting Place to Study Agrarian Change

In: Contract Farming, Capital and State

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  • Ritika Shrimali

    (Western University)

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Punjab has been a pre-eminent case of state-led agrarian development (through Green Revolution Technology) as well as its ‘near-opposite’: neoliberal agrarian development (through Contract Farming). The latter has opened up agriculture to international market, reducing state’s role, including in credit-provision. Punjab is therefore an interesting place to study agrarian change and development. In this chapter, political economy of Punjab’s agrarian development and the challenges it has faced since Green Revolution have been laid out. To deal with the agrarian crisis and to create space for “Punjabi farmers” to get involved with India’s New Economic Policy of the 1990s, ‘crop diversification’ strategies such as CF were introduced. In this chapter, author identifies the underlying assumptions that form the basis of ‘spread’ of CF. The uneven spread of CF operations in Punjab and India indicate that inequality and uneven development is inherent to neoliberal agrarian development, just as it was inherent to Green Revolution Technological spread.

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  • Ritika Shrimali, 2021. "Punjab: An Intertesting Place to Study Agrarian Change," Springer Books, in: Contract Farming, Capital and State, chapter 0, pages 25-37, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-1934-2_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1934-2_2
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