Author(s):

Shahlas Binth T, Basavaraj Hulagur, SB Goudappa, Shashidhara KK and Jagrati B Deshmanya

Abstract: Collective farming aims to bring significant changes among farmwomen through increased agricultural production and productivity. The present study was undertaken to analyse the labour management and benefit sharing practices involved in collective farming. The study was conducted in Palakkad district of Kerala during 2017-2018 by the ex-post-facto research design with the sample size of 90 groups. The result revealed that Farmwomen were engaged in all farming operation and their imputed value was much higher than any other labour. It has significantly reduced their dependency on hired labour. This indicates that collective farming approaches through effective pooling of labour resources and better utilization of family labour were able to address the problem of labour scarcity. Farmwomen were also utilized machine labour which helped them to do various farming operations effectively. Mechanization could help the farmwomen to do very difficult tasks in farming in less of time and with less cost. With the use of machines, farmwomen have got enough spare time to do other activities and at least they get leisure time (take rest) for improving their health conditions and quality of life of the family. It was observed that majority (84.44%) of the groups opt to disburse the entire revenue generated from sale proceeds immediately after realization. The second type of group kept aside a percentage of return for the next season. Only 15.56 per cent of them kept aside funds (5-10%) from current revenue for the next season. This behaviour has implications for cash flow of these collective farming groups. The fund for next cropping season is raised afresh each time. This increases the transaction cost of arranging finances for group farming.

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