Power dynamics among sugarcane growers and emerging pattern of rural leadership

Abstract

The agrarian societies are those human settlements and grouping who survive on agriculture-based livelihood (cultivating land and allied activities, i.e., animal husbandry, poultry, fishery etc.). Agricultural production or cultivation is an economic activity which create a network of social relationships as well as shared responsibility among peasants/farmers in a various social capacity. It is possible that they could cultivate the lands by own while others may engage wage labourers. Few of them may give their land to tenants and adopt sharecropping method. They also provide different types of services required to each other for cultivation of land. newline