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More Marketable Surplus: In recent years, farming in India has become market oriented. Farmer has to consider not only demand and supply of different commodities but also the costs involved and the profitability. India is characterized by Small-Scale family farming. Naturally, the marketable surplus with individual farmer is also relatively smaller. Now with commercialization coming in larger quantities of the commodities are being produced with new techniques of production. Thus, many areas, many pockets are developed for production of lot of marketable surplus of different commodities. In Maharashtra, one can find such areas for Grapes, Oranges, Banana, Pomegranate, Ber, number of vegetables, etc. To overcome the problem of small-scale farming (& small surplus), not only the yield boosting techniques are used but farmers have formed their groups. Associations or Co-operatives for supply of certain inputs to members, transport, marketing the produce at distant markets. Some of them for instance, ` Maha-grapes’, Maha-mango’ are arranging for exports of grapes and mangoes respectively. |
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