Agricultural Market Access and Crop-Receipt Heterogeneity among Bereaved Farm Households in Karnataka, India

Authors

  • Basavaraj M.S
  • Raghavendra Talimarada
  • Muhammed Fazil

Keywords:

agricultural market access, crop-sale receipts, farm commercialization, survey measurement, Karnataka

Abstract

This study investigates heterogeneity in gross crop-sale receipts and its association with reported agricultural marketing access among bereaved farming households in Karnataka. We analyse 184 available household records from Bellary and Raichur. Ordered monetary categories are treated as grouped observations; descriptive comparisons, adjusted regressions and sensitivity analyses are used. In an adjusted model using 178 complete cases, reported access to agricultural marketing facilities is positively associated with a higher crop-sales category (odds ratio approximately 2.23; 95% confidence interval 1.15–4.32). These findings are associational rather than causal. The analysis shifts attention from credit and government compensation to the conditions of agricultural exchange and the measurement challenges of grouped sale and cultivation-expenditure data.

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2026-10-29

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M.S B, Talimarada R, Fazil M. Agricultural Market Access and Crop-Receipt Heterogeneity among Bereaved Farm Households in Karnataka, India. J Neonatal Surg [Internet]. 2026 Oct. 29 [cited 2026 Nov. 13];14(32S):11332-4. Available from: https://jneonatalsurg.com/index.php/jns/article/view/10657

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