Explain commercialisation of agriculture
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Answer:
By commercialisation of agriculture we mean production of agricultural crops for sale in the market, rather than for family consumption.
For marketization of agricultural products thus ‘surplus’ of production over consumption is required.
Explanation:
There were three major types of agricultural commercialisation in India. The first form of commercialisation was associated with plantation agriculture, especially tea plantation of the northern districts of Bengal. The second type of commercialisation came to be known as ‘subsistence commercialisation’ or the ‘jute phase’. Under this jute version of commercialisation, peasants in search of minimum subsistence level of living turned to intensive cash crops, mainly jute in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The major stimulus for a wholly un-remunerative crop like indigo came from its increased demand in Europe. This phase was characterised by the intrusion of foreign capital. Managing Agency Houses—a multifaceted institutions of trade and finance created by the ex-servants of the EIC and merchants—provided the necessary capital for the expansion of indigo cultivation.
Though no neat sequencing of these phases of commercialisation is discernible, the dependent and subsistence commercialisation phases ‘have been most pervasive in moulding the productive activities of the working peasantry of eastern India’.
Answer:
commercialisation of agriculture
Explanation:
The commercialization of agriculture means that the agricultural crops and goods are produced by the peasants for sale in the market and not for their own consumption. Commercialization of agriculture in India began during the British rule.
The commercialization of Indian Agriculture took place not to feed the industries of India because India was far behind in industrial development as compared to Britain, France, Belgium and many other European countries of eighteenth century. The commercialization of Indian agriculture was done primarily to feed the British industries that it was taken up and achieved only in cases-of those agricultural products which were either needed by the British industries or could fetch cash commercial gain to the British in the European or American market.