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Adoption of rubber-integrated farm-livelihood systems: contrasting empirical evidence from the Indian context

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Author	Viswanathan, P. K. Shivakoti, Ganesh P.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	This paper examines the influence of important socio-economic, institutional/policy level factors in determining the adoption/non-adoption of rubber-integrated farming systems in traditional and non-traditional rubber-growing regions in India. The empirical analysis is based on a survey of rubber growers in the traditional rubber regions of Kerala (south India) and the non-traditional rubber regions of Assam, Meghalaya, and Tripura (north east India). In sharp contrast to Kerala, where smallholder responses toward adoption of rubber-integrated farming systems have been lukewarm, the emerging rubber economies (most of which are tribal communities) of north east (NE) India have shown interest in adopting rubber as an integrated farming system along with pre-existing land-use livelihood activities. The study clearly demonstrates contrasting empirical evidence of adoption of rubber-integrated farm-livelihood systems in the rubber-growing regions in Kerala and the NE states in India. The contrasting scenarios of adoption of rubber-integrated farming systems are mostly explained by region-specific factors dominated by socio-economic, institutional variables, and policy-level constraints, as also revealed by multivariate analysis. By and large, the findings of the study have significant bearing on the socio-economic outcomes and the existing institutional development paradigm underlying the rubber-development programmes introduced in India since independence. The study shows that the existing institutional arrangements and policies, which evolved historically to facilitate rubber area expansion in the traditional regions (including Kerala), have been highly instrumental in perpetuating rubber farming as a monoculture system. However, such an institutional mechanism proves to be highly redundant in the context of the NE states which are otherwise diverse in terms of integrated farm-livelihood systems and shifting cultivation.
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ISSN	13416979
Journal	Journal of Forest Research
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	16107403
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Japan
Publisher Date	2007-12-19
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Adoption Institutional factors Rubber-integrated farming systems Rubber smallholders Socio-economic factors Plant Ecology Plant Sciences Tree Biology Forestry Management Forestry
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Forestry

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