AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION ACROSS RURAL URBAN GRADIENT OF BENGALURU NORTH: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
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2017-09-01
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
Urbanization is a common phenomenon across the globe which is slowly turning
rural landscapes into urban landscapes. This transformation is having constructive as well
destructive impacts on the livelihood of farm households. The study was carried out in
the rural-urban continuum of Bengaluru North, where the developmental pressure of
Bengaluru city is most prominent. The study was based on primary data of 180 farmers
from urban, peri-urban and rural situations and secondary data on land use pattern from
DES, Bengaluru. The results revealed that marginalization of farm lands was one of the
consequences of urbanization in urban and peri-urban gradient. It may reiterate in rural
gradient because of tendency of increase in number and extent of land sales. Strong
negative correlation between area under non-agricultural uses and net sown area was
found in Bengaluru urban (-0.96) district as whole and Bengaluru North (-0.78) and
Devanahalli (-0.56) taluks in particular. Semi-log hedonic model identified proximity
variables distance to Bengaluru city and to national highway and temporal variable of
transaction year as significantly influencing farm land values. The allocative efficiency
analysis identified the need for readjustment of inputs in crop production and dairy across
the gradients. Cobb-Douglas type of production function identified loan amount
borrowed and number of youth in farming having significant bearing on accumulation of
non-land farm capital stock in urban and peri-urban. Garret ranking technique prioritized
push factors of non-availability of resources of land and irrigation, unemployment and
poverty and pull factors of better alternatives, nearness to urban and relatively high
wages, influencing farm youth migration across the three gradients. Dairy was a key
source of income in urban (30.32 %), peri-urban (25.78 %) and rural gradients (27.85 %).
Strong policy measures on land use to curtail the unlawful conversion of farm lands and
its effective implementation was needed.
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