Open AccessDoes Size of Landholding Contributing Highest Share to Consumption Expenditure Inequalities among Agricultural Households?
Author(s) -
Mulla Areef,
Y. Radha,
V. Srinivasa Rao,
P. V. Sathya Gopal,
K. Solmon Raju Paul,
K. Suseela,
S. Rajeswari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
asian journal of agricultural extension, economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-7027
DOI - 10.9734/ajaees/2021/v39i430557
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , inequality , dependency ratio , agriculture , economics , agricultural economics , geography , mathematics , demography , mathematical analysis , social science , population , archaeology , sociology
This study aims to identify factors that contribute to consumption expenditure inequality and employed the regression based inequality decomposition (RBID) method. Used primary data on agricultural households’ consumption expenditure for the agricultural year 2018-19 in the south coastal region of Andhra Pradesh. The results compared across the landholding size wise category and concluded that monthly income, dependency ratio, non-farm income-earning members and size of household contributed highest percentage share to total inequality for food, non-food and total consumption expenditure. At the aggregate (overall farmers) level highest percentage of inequality share contributed by monthly income and followed by the size of landholding. There is a need to focus on control the size of households by narrowing the dependency ratio and enhance the monthly income of agricultural households by providing employment opportunities in both farm and non-farm income-earning activities.