Year: 2014 | Month: September | Volume 59 | Issue 3
An Analysis of Share Cropping in Rice Cultivation- A Case Study in Karimganj District of Assam
Hemchandra Saikia
H.K.Changmai
B.C.Bhowmick
DOI:10.5958/0976-4666.2014.00013.8
Abstract:
Sharecropping is an important age-old agrarian phenomenon in Assam. There is still vast scope to boost rice production in the study area through increasing the productivity of crops with the adoption of improved and economic methods of crop cultivation in due space and time on a sustainable basis. Sharecropping in the study area is established as supplementary source of farm income to those farmers who undertake sharecropping by hiring lands from others. It also act as a complementary source of income and employment for both the group of farmers that is one who undertake sharecropping on others lands and others who let their land for sharecropping to other farmers. Thus, Sharecropping in the study area is found as both supplementary and complementary source of farm income. Of course, in the study area, there is still great scope to make share cropping more profitable as the productivity of rice crop is 481 kg less than the productivity of Punjab and 3202 kg less than the productivity of Egypt which is highest in the world.
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