Contract farming –pros and cons in Indian agriculture system

Contract farming is one of the different governance mechanisms for transaction in agro-food chain.

In Contract farming agricultural production carried out according to an agreement between buyers and farmers which establishes the condition for production and marketing of the farm products..In the era of liberalization, globalisation contract farming is effective way to coordinate and marketing in agriculture but there will be problems related to the small scale farmers, women, and child labour. So contract farming has several pros and cons in context of developing country like India. The advantages and problems of contract farming in Indian agriculture system are mentioned in this study. The content analysis on the previous literature is used as methodological framework in this study.