An Econometric Analysis of farmer's Distress in Andhra Pradesh (With Reference to North Coastal Andhra Region-Logistic Regression Analysis) Rao Pasala Srinivasa*, (Rtd) Rao M. Sundara** *Assistant Professor, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College for Degree and P.G. Courses (A), India. pasala.sreenu@gmail.com **Professor in Economics, Department of Economics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. profmsundararao@yahoo.co.in Online published on 12 May, 2017. Abstract Theodore Schultz's rightly pointed in his Nobel Prize lecture, “Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.” It is a fact that the farm activities all over India are dwindling down. The farmers prefer day labour due to non remunerative and uncertainty of agriculture. The reason for this situation is food grains, especially paddy and wheat which were grown in the country on the most fertile and irrigated areas. Also, water, fertilizer and pesticides, power, credit or procurement under Minimum Support Price Programme and manpower sources were use largely in the country. Even though, the average yields of wheat and paddy in India being 39 percent and 46 percent respectively, this is below than China. In wheat, India's average yield is 3075 kg per hectare in 2013 which is lower than the world's average of 3257 kg per hectare. The yields of paddy in India are comparatively lower than the China. India's best state Punjab had the yield of paddy was to 6000kg/ha whereas China's yield of paddy was 6709 kg/ha. Another side of agriculture distress is low farm income. The 70th round of National Sample Survey stated that the average income of the median farmer's net production costs from cultivation is less than Rs. 20, 000 in 17 states in India. Whereas Andhra Pradesh is Twelfth state among the 30 states in India in ascending order. Based on the analysis carried out and field survey, it can be observed that the independent variables which influences the farmer's distress are quite different between irrigated and rainfed areas in North Coastal Andhra region It's time for encouraging the Agriculture Scientist Subhash Palekar's Zero Budget Spiritual Farming or Nature Farming. Top Keywords Dependency Ratio, Ware houses, Odds Ratio, Logistic Regression, Distress, Yield, rainfed. Top |