{"id":1659,"date":"2024-03-28T15:13:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:21:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:51:05","slug":"q-which-one-of-the-following-best-describes-the-concept-of-small-farmer-large-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-which-one-of-the-following-best-describes-the-concept-of-small-farmer-large-field","title":{"rendered":"Q. Which one of the following best describes the concept of \u2018Small Farmer Large Field\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resettlement of a large number of people, uprooted from their countries due to war, by giving them a large cultivable land which they cultivate collectively and share the produce<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many marginal farmers in an area organize themselves into groups and synchronize and harmonize selected agricultural operations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many marginal farmers in an area together make a contract with a corporate body and surrender their land to the corporate body for a fixed term for which the corporate body makes a payment of agreed amount to the farmers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A company extends loans, technical knowledge and material inputs to a number of small farmers in an area so that they produce the agricultural commodity required by the company for its manufacturing process and commercial production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) Many marginal farmers in an area organize themselves into groups and synchronize and harmonize selected agricultural operations<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"small-farmer-large-field-model\">Small Farmer Large Field Model<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Small Farmer Large Field (SFLF) model was piloted in two villages of Odisha, an eastern Indian state, with 112 farmers who&nbsp;<strong>organized themselves into groups and synchronized their operations such as nursery bed management, transplanting, and harvesting collectively to achieve economies of scale<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The SFLF farmers also purchased inputs (seed and fertilizer) and sold paddy as a group to increase their bargaining power in price negotiations. The results from this pilot study showed that the participating farmers almost doubled their profits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>SFLF concept was adapted from the Large Field Model (LFM) of Vietnam<\/strong>, which was also based on the&nbsp;<strong>principles of aggregation and achieving economies of scale<\/strong>, through strengthening backwards and forward integration along the supply chain and lowering costs by synchronising key agricultural operations from field preparation to harvest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/SFLF-in-odisha.jpg\" alt=\"Small Farmer Large Field Model\" class=\"wp-image-48423\" title=\"Upsc prelims research: indian economy 2023 4\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (b) Many marginal farmers in an area organize themselves into groups and synchronize and harmonize selected agricultural operations Small Farmer Large Field Model<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[38],"years":[50],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-economy","years-50"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":38,"label":"Indian Economy"}],"years":[{"value":50,"label":"2023"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":38,"name":"Indian Economy","slug":"indian-economy","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":38,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":225,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}