Adjustment to risk in farming an assessment of drought-prone farmers strategies in Karnataka India

dc.contributor.author	Gajanana, T. M.
dc.contributor.author	Sharma, B. M.
dc.date.accessioned	2010-07-27T09:08:50Z
dc.date.available	2010-07-27T09:08:50Z
dc.date.copyright	1991
dc.date.issued	2010-07-27T09:08:50Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11718/6382
dc.description.abstract	Weather-induced instability in farming in the predominant rainfed lands is fairly well recongised. Faced with the problems of frequent droughts and the resultant risk in farming, farmers strategies to cope with the situations during and after the drought. An attempt is made in this paper to examine the nature and extent of risk in farming and an assessment is made of the adjustment/management mechanism adopted by the farmers in one of the drought-prone districts of Karnataka.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	WP;1991/926
dc.subject	Farming - Karnataka	en
dc.subject	Rain fed agriculture - India	en
dc.title	Adjustment to risk in farming an assessment of drought-prone farmers strategies in Karnataka India	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en