Farmer organizations in China and India
Abstract
Purpose
Agriculture sectors in China and India are going through rapid changes. There is a shift in demand pattern, significant changes in the supply chain, greater competition due to opening up of the domestic and external markets and fuller integration with rest of the economy. These developments have impacted traditional agriculture and its institutional underpinning. Latter are being transformed and new institutions are coming into existence. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper discusses the changes in economy and the agricultural sector, explores institutional responses in terms of various producer organizations in the two countries, and examines their adequacy for the coming phase of agricultural development in China and India.
Findings
The co-existence of various farmer organizations will sustain for a long period in both China and India. Overall, they have benefitted agriculture producers, and more particularly the surplus generating farmers. However, the incompatibility between these and the vast and growing small farm sector is not disappearing. Next set of institutional reforms should address this critical question of “reaching the unreached.”
Originality/value
China and India are the world’s two largest countries in terms of population as well as agricultural population. They share a lot of common features. This paper discusses the changes in agricultural sector, explores institutional responses in terms of farmer organizations, and examines their adequacy for the coming phase of agricultural development in China and India, which has never been seen before.
Keywords
Acknowledgements
This research is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China project (Grant Nos 71333011 and 71273234) and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China project (Grant No. LQ14G030041).
Citation
Huang, Z., Vyas, V. and Liang, Q. (2015), "Farmer organizations in China and India", China Agricultural Economic Review, Vol. 7 No. 4, pp. 601-615. https://doi.org/10.1108/CAER-02-2015-0013
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited