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| 8.3. Recommendations: (i) Contract farming should be popularised as an alternative risk management instrument. (ii) Facilitation of contract farming requires support in terms of changes in legislation e.g. APMC Act, mechanism to resolve conflict and providing quality control facilities. iii) While designing flexible forms of pricing, combining insurance and futures as well, may make it more attractive to the farming community. (iv) Education, training and awareness building, on contract farming should be provided extensively to companies, government agencies as well as farming communities. (v) The processor/procurer in the contract farming arrangement, needs to be responsible for effective backward & forward linkages, keeping in view the interests of the farmers, as well as the business interest of the management. 8.4. Bio fuels: Commercial cultivation of Bio-fuel trees / plants has of late drawn the attention of farmers as well as corporates because of their income enhancing potential as also environmental issues such as climate change. There are other reasons, which make bio-fuel trees cultivation particularly, Jatropha attractive and remunerative for farmers, which are highlighted in Box, in the following page: |