Transnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal by Ramesh Sunam

Author:Ramesh Sunam [Sunam, Ramesh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367471569
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

A key driver of deactivation of agriculture includes weak asset bases and unfavourable terms of sharecropping. Interviews with current and prospective sharecroppers indicated that due to increased costs of farming only some poor households can be sharecroppers, although sharecropping remained their strong preference. A household requires a strong asset base to take up sharecropping. The households who had adequate family labour, who owned oxen for ploughing and who won the trust of landowners could be profitably involved in sharecropping. For others, it was very costly simply because they were unable to afford the labour required for ploughing and meeting other farm expenses. Even though almost all of them were landless and wished to sharecrop, only three out of 16 Dalit households engaged in sharecropping as they lacked start-up capital.

Table 4.1 Production costs of paddy cultivation and incomes per bigha

Source: Fieldwork data 2012 (inflation around 7%).

Note

$1 = NPR 90.

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