Commercialization of Agriculture in India – A study

India is mostly an agrarian economy. Indian agriculture is described by millions of small and marginal farmer with uneconomical landholding facing a numerous of problems to sustain their livelihood. The problem of small farmer’s empowerment and development as one of the major opportunity of poverty alleviation remains challenging. The challenge is to ensure that they would participate in and contribute to agricultural and rural development, by facilitating them a level playing field. In India, the government as a part of liberalization drive has been promoting a turn towards the concept of commercialization of farming through contract corporate farming like the western countries and made substantive legislative changes to provide its propagation. These farming practices were foreseen as the most efficient with combination of timely, quality and cost effective delivery of industrial inputs there is a great concern regarding the ability of the small farmers to survive in the changing environment of agri-business.