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An Analysis of Share Cropping in Rice Cultivation-A Case Study in Karimganj District of Assam Saikia Hemchandra*, Changmai H.K., Bhowmick B.C. Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat-785013, Assam, India *Corresponding author: saikia.hemchandra@rediffmail.com
Online published on 11 November, 2014. Abstract Share cropping 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. Share cropping in the study area is established as supplementary source of farm income to those farmers who undertake share cropping 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 share cropping on others lands and others who let their land for share cropping to other farmers. Thus, Share cropping 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. Top Keywords Share cropping, rice, productivity, farm income and supplementary income. Top | |
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