Constraints faced by the stakeholders and contract sponsors of their suggestions for improvement in contract farming

The contract farming amending APMC act in Karnataka and other states of India was aimed to increase the producers share and to enhance availability of quality agricultural produce to both domestic and overseas markets. The study was conducted in six districts of Karnataka state viz., Chikkaballapur, Tumkur, Davanagere, Haveri, Gadag and Bellary. These were purposively selected as the major areas under contract farming in the selected crops which were exist in these areas.