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Stating the (Not So) Obvious: The ‘Interventionist Neoliberal State’ in India

In: Contract Farming, Capital and State

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  • Ritika Shrimali

    (Western University)

Abstract

In this chapter, author argues that as a structure of multiple relations of production and exchange and as a mode of accumulation as associated with these relations, Contract Farming has an important condition of existence: the state. CF is internally related to the state. It is a deeply political project and not just an economic one. The capitalist Indian state has been creating conditions for ‘neoliberal agriculture’ that are conducive to contract farming. Indeed, the state has been directly promoting contract farming. The state has been doing this, more or less, in the interest of big business (domestic and foreign), ideologically justifying its actions in the name of national development. Using secondary data sources and analysing the documents produced by the state, including the most recent farm bills passed by the Government of India in 2020, it is argued that there is a definite shift towards corporatisation of Indian Agriculture in the very discourse—vision—of the Indian State. Aided by the state, a few corporate giants are controlling the means of production that is vital for agricultural development. Such monopolistic tendencies have severe implications.

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  • Ritika Shrimali, 2021. "Stating the (Not So) Obvious: The ‘Interventionist Neoliberal State’ in India," Springer Books, in: Contract Farming, Capital and State, chapter 0, pages 65-99, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-1934-2_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1934-2_4
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