An econometric analysis of farmer's distress in Andhra Pradesh: A logistic regression analysis

Theodore Schultz's rightly pointed in his Nobel Prize lecture, “Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.” The farm activities all over India are dwindling down. Based on the analysis carried out and field survey, it can be observed that the independent variables which influences the farmer's distress are quite different between irrigated and rainfed areas in North Coastal Andhra region It's time for encouraging the Agriculture Scientist Subhash Palekar's Zero Budget Spiritual Farming or Nature Farming.