Production Conditions, and Agrarian Change in Rural Odisha

Abstract

The motivation for this study has developed from the contemporary crisis arising in agricultural sector, which is known as back bone of a rural economy in developing countries. From the increasing labour shortage, falling supply of manpower, labour-migration; few existed draw backs seen in government schemes of public work provision like MGNREGA, PDS provision of food-security, subsidies allocation and MSP has leading number of farmer suicide; and the case of Odisha is not excluded. In this paper, it is attempted to discuss the agrarian change and production conditions in rural Odisha and India as the changes occurred by different size-classes of land holdings in different time periods. The theories of agrarian change has referred according to Ellis that the interpretations of social and economic change in the rural sector have been discussed. The analysis of the economic change in rural economy such as in the cases of changes in structural growth in the agriculture vis-a-vis other industries; changes in the land ownership and operational landholdings; and the implications of agrarian structure on productivity have been analyzed..