ABSTRACT
The crisis-ridden Indian agriculture faces multiple structural issues resulting in low agricultural productivity. The growth constraining institutional structure of agrarian production and marketing creates structural inequality among the farm sector households keeping landless agricultural households, small and marginal farmers at the bottom of poverty. Land, Labour, and Credit arrangements in the production structure are highly interlinked, and vulnerability of any form in one arrangement impacts the entire agrarian classes. The COVID-19 lockdown not only influences the supply chain of agricultural produce, but the disturbances in the labour market might also strengthen the growth constraining institutions in the rural agrarian production structure. The chapter highlights the structural constraints of production and marketing in agriculture and challenges of Doubling Farmers’ Income.
