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Discuss the role of institutional factors in shaping the pattern of Indian agriculture.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Agriculture

Indian agriculture is read through four determinant sets — physical, institutional, infrastructural and technological. The institutional set is land tenure, tenancy, size and shape of holdings, land reform and land records.

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  • The Institutional Set
  • The Colonial Tenure Map Still Shows Through
  • Holding Size as a Pattern-Maker
  • Consolidation and Tenancy
  • Where the Evidence Complicates the Reading

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