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Title: ROLE OF GRASSROOTS INSTITUTIONS IN COMMERCIAL CROPS : RUBBER PRODUCERS SOCIETIES IN PLANTATION SECTOR IN KERALA
Authors: Vijayalekshmi P J
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Vijayalekshmi P J Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Mannam Memmorial NSS College, Kottiyam, Kollam, Kerala
MLA 8 P J, Vijayalekshmi. "ROLE OF GRASSROOTS INSTITUTIONS IN COMMERCIAL CROPS : RUBBER PRODUCERS SOCIETIES IN PLANTATION SECTOR IN KERALA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 7, no. 7, July 2022, pp. 2052-2059, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i07.023. Accessed July 2022. APA 6 P J, V. (2022, July). ROLE OF GRASSROOTS INSTITUTIONS IN COMMERCIAL CROPS : RUBBER PRODUCERS SOCIETIES IN PLANTATION SECTOR IN KERALA. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 7(7), 2052-2059. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i07.023 Chicago P J, Vijayalekshmi. "ROLE OF GRASSROOTS INSTITUTIONS IN COMMERCIAL CROPS : RUBBER PRODUCERS SOCIETIES IN PLANTATION SECTOR IN KERALA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 7, no. 7 (July 2022), 2052-2059. Accessed July, 2022. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i07.023.
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ABSTRACT: The growth of Indian rubber plantation sector in India has been mainly through the expansion of rubber cultivation in Kerala. The achievements of Kerala’s natural rubber sector has been widely recognised for its unique features. Rubber production of the country is contributed mainly by the small growers. There are more than one million smallholdings accounting for Kerala with 75% of the total production and 78 % of the area under cultivation in the country (GOI 2021) It is the nearly monopolistic contributor to the natural rubber production of India. The natural rubber production of the state was 540775 lakh tonnes and the coverage under the crop was 5.34 lakh ha(GOI 2021).Along with increase in production and productivity, agricultural marketing should be properly addressed in strengthening agricultural sector. Marketing and institutional credit no doubt has a significant role and this role has further increased in the liberalised environment. With a view to overcome the problems that the small rubber growers experiences in marketing in 1986, a grass root level organization was formed in the villages called Rubber Producer Societies (RPSs).In addition to productivity enhancement, it helps in processing and marketing of rubber. The present paper focuses the role and importance of RPSs in agriculture marketing and overall rubber production in Kerala.

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