Addressing Agrarian Challenges inherent to the Hills of Manipur.

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Athili Lolia

agrarian crisis in the hills of Manipur, low productivity, poverty, water scarcity, shortage of arable land, farm ponds, approach roads, Farmer Producer Organisations

Discussion on the agrarian economy of Manipur revolves around diagnosing its problems and arriving at the communal land ownership system as the one major factor for low land productivity, which then serves as a proxy in making the hill districts of Manipur poorer than the valley districts. Also, absence of technological penetration, lack of irrigation and market system, poor infrastructure and less use of high yielding variety seeds are diagnosed. Land reforms coupled with introducing high-yielding varieties, better irrigation and market systems are recommended. Moving beyond the diagnosed problem, the paper supplements the existing recommendations, considering that the shortage of arable land with a good water source becomes a fundamental topographical problem for the small farming communities in the hills of Manipur. Addressing the twin problems and exploring alternatives to mitigating them becomes the focus of this paper. It examines possible interventions for resolving the agrarian crisis. Three alternatives are identified: a) approach roads, b) farmer producers’ companies, and c) farm ponds at individual farm levels. Establishing farm ponds at individual farm levels plays a dual role: 1) mitigates water crisis and 2) intensifies the use of the scarce resource that is land. Intensifying the use of the resource requires approaching roads where machines and technology replace manual labour. Intensifying the use of resources exerts a positive externality on the environment. FPOs can decrease farm input through collective purchase, access institutional credit, and hone their skills through training and agricultural extensions. Farmer Producer Organizations have also served as successful entrepreneurs. This paper is based on field interviews conducted at Senapati, Kangpokpi, Churachandpur and Tamenglong districts in 2019 and revisiting certain villages in 2023.

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Athili Lolia (October-2023). Addressing Agrarian Challenges inherent to the Hills of Manipur.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(10), b826-b838. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2310190.pdf

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Research Area: Social Science and Humanities 

Country: Imphal, Manipur, India

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