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Plantations in Transition: Productivity, Prices and Employment book cover

1st Edition

Plantations in Transition Productivity, Prices and Employment

Edited By Vinoj Abraham Copyright 2027
280 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides a comprehensive socio-economic analysis of India's four dominant plantation sectors: tea, coffee, rubber, and spices. The shift of plantation crops from estate crops to small farm crops has had serious ramifications on input use, productivity, yield and profitability of these crops.  As plantation crops increasingly become a source of livelihood for millions of small and... Read more

1.     Introduction: Plantations in Transition

Vinoj Abraham

TEA

2.     Small is Efficient, but is it Profitable? Production of Tea in Post-Independence India

Tirtha Chatterjee, Thiagu Ranganathan, Rucha Takle

 

3.     Tea: Prices and Marketing

Thiagu Ranganathan, Tirtha Chatterjee, Rucha Takle

 

4.     Labour and Employment in Tea Sector of India

Vinoj Abraham, Anuja V P

RUBBER

5.     Area, Production, and Productivity of Natural Rubber

Sunil Mani

 

6.     Socio-economic analysis of labour in rubber plantations

Siju T

COFFEE

7.     An Analysis of Area, Production and Productivity of Coffee in India

Ritika Jain, Tirtha Chatterjee, Mangal Kumar Sharma

 

8.     Coffee sector in India: A study of few selected issues

Chidambaran G. Iyer

 

9.     Labour and Employment in the Coffee Sector of India

Vinoj Abraham, Anuja V P

SPICES

10.  Production, Productivity and Employment in Small Cardamom

 A. B. Rema Shree

 

11.  Marketing and pricing in cardamom

A. B. Rema Shree

 

12.  Tracing the Transformation of India’s Black Pepper Exports: Patterns, Variability, and Competitiveness

Sachu Sara Sabu and Anil Kuruvila

Index

Biography

Vinoj Abraham is Professor at Centre for Development Studies, holding the Ministry of Commerce Chair at Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Kerala. Awarded PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has been at CDS for the past twenty years engaging in research, teaching and supervision on gender and development, labour and development, migration, plantation agriculture, technology and innovation. He has been consultant to The World Bank, The ILO, the Kerala State Planning Board and member of various expert committees set up by the Government of India and Government of Kerala.

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