Bhalia wheat in Gujarat: Does geographical indication registration have a role in arresting the decline?

Institutional Strengthening of Farmer Producer Organizations and Empowerment of Small Farmers in India: Evidence from a Case Study in Maharashtra

“…FPC rating is the rating of performance by the FPC farmers on the services provided by the FPC, which included input provision, extension service (providing technical guidance), documentation, weather information and market linkages. In the survey (Lalitha et al, 2020), farmers responded in terms of very good, good, average, below average, poor and do not know. For the analysis, farmer responses of ‘very good and good’ were assigned the value 1 and 0 otherwise; we have taken the simple average of the farmer responses coded as 1.…”

“…This price advantage can be attributed to the emphasis on the quality and traceability by the SFPCL, enabling a better price for the farmers than those farmers who are focused on the domestic market (Lalitha et al, 2020) where often there is no incentive for farmers with better quality produce (Singh et al, 2018, p. 381).…”

“…1.GIDR-CSD survey 2018, also cited as Lalitha et al (2020) here, draws from a larger study titled ‘Geographical Indication Protected Agricultural Products from the Select States of India: An Enquiry into the Economic, Livelihood and Institutional Aspects’, supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, done jointly by the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad and Council for Social Development, Hyderabad. Some information pertaining to Sahyadri is also drawn from their website and the online Panel Discussion on Marketing Strategies for Natural Farmers held on 7 January 2021 organized by Revitalising Rainfed Agrarian Network in which the Chairman of Sahyadri presented the case of Sahyadri, referred here as Shinde (2021).…”

“…2.Regarding social cohesion in the survey (Lalitha et al, 2020), we had asked the farmers ‘Do you require help/cooperation of other farmers in the village in cultivation of grapes? Yes/no—If yes, for what reasons do you consult them’.…”