@article{Barik:343448,
      recid = {343448},
      author = {Barik, B.B. },
      title = {Strategies for Doubling of Income of Smallholder Farmers  from Demand Perspective},
      journal = {Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics},
      address = {2019-07-01},
      number = {902-2024-3209},
      month = {Jul},
      year = {2019},
      abstract = {Based on the secondary sources of data, the study attempts  to examine the scope of doubling the income from demand  perspective and to recommend different strategies for  improving the income of smallholder farmers. The number of  holdings, area of smallholder farmers had increased from  81.8 per cent to 85 per cent, 36.6 per cent to 43.4 per  cent of total holdings and area respectively from 2000-01  to 2010-11 and during the same period the average holding  of smallholder farmers decreased from 0.63 to 0.605 ha. Due  to uneconomic holdings a large percentage of smallholder  farmers are below the poverty line. It is the national  priority to enhance their income so that they can escape  from poverty. The dream of our Prime Minister is to double  the farmers’ income from the base year 2015-16 to 2022-23.  The annual growth rate of urban population in India was  2.324 per cent in 2017. The disposable per capita income of  urban population will rise to Rs. 239000 (at real price of  2008) upto 2030, i.e., at 6.4 per cent of growth rate. With  the rise in per capita income of urban households the  demand for consumption of fruits and vegetables, other  agricultural products, milk (liquid), eggs, fish, chicken  (meat) etc. will rise. There is also evidence that per  capita annual consumption of vegetables, milk (liquid),  eggs and chicken had risen from the year 1993-94 to 2011-12  due to increase in urban population and income. Thus  smallholder farmers can enhance their income by  diversifying high value crops like vegetables and allied  products.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/343448},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.343448},
}