Tài liệu Trade Reforms and Crisis in India’s Plantation Agriculture: Reflections on Tea and Rubber

Trade Reforms and Crisis in India Trade Reforms and Crisis in India’s

Plantation Agriculture: Plantation Agriculture:

Reflections on Tea and Rubber Plantation Sectors Reflections on Tea and Rubber Plantation Sectors

P K Viswanathan, Amita Shah P K Viswanathan, Amita Shah

Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Gujarat Institute of Development Research,

Ahmedabad, India Ahmedabad, India

Outline Outline

¾ Context of the study Context of the study

¾ Objectives, data and methods Objectives, data and methods

¾ Growth in plantation sectors: India Growth in plantation sectors: India vs major countries major countries

¾ Trade reforms and impacts on two plantation sectors Trade reforms and impacts on two plantation sectors

¾ Policy perspectives: revamping plantation sectors Policy perspectives: revamping plantation sectors

¾ In the backdrop of the In the backdrop of the ‘crisis’ affecting India affecting India’s plantation sector in recent s plantation sector in recent

years

¾ Triggering factors of the Triggering factors of the ‘crisis’ – both exogenous and endogenous both exogenous and endogenous

¾ Exogenous: Asian financial crisis, Exogenous: Asian financial crisis, casualties of the changing ex casualties of the changing external trade ternal trade

regimes in the post regimes in the post-WTO scenario: removal of trade barriers enabling easy WTO scenario: removal of trade barriers enabling easy

market access through NAMA (level playing field with windows of market access through NAMA (level playing field with windows of

opportunities opportunities….. for whom?..) .. for whom?..)

¾ Endogenous: Endogenous: ‘crisis’ opens up an array of issu opens up an array of issues, challenges and internal es, challenges and internal

contradictions in the sectors contradictions in the sectors…needing thorough revamping and needing thorough revamping and

interventions interventions

¾ Little empirical evidence as Little empirical evidence as ‘how the crisis spread far and wide and with what how the crisis spread far and wide and with what

micro level implications on the micro level implications on the plantation sector and its sustai plantation sector and its sustainable future nable future’

I. The study I. The study