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In India, significant policy initiatives and institutional changes have transformed the agricultural sector. In this process of agricultural transformation, contract farming has emerged as an institutional innovation that facilitates direct firm-to-farm linkages. Contract farming benefits farmers, especially smallholders, by enabling access to credit, inputs and extension services and by raising productivity, profitability and income. By organising the production of high-value food crops, contract farming can create links between input markets and producers, and international markets.
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