Determinants of Agriculture Growth to Small and Marginal Farmers in Selected Districts of Tamil Nadu

A field study was made with the sample size of 528 from selected districts of Tamil Nadu [Trichy, Karur and Erode]. Major objective of this study is to explore the determinants of small and marginal farmers which influence the agriculture growth and how demographic profile of farmers linked with determinants. The study handled with primary and secondary data. Under this study the methods used for sample is stratified random sample. Samples from population is stratified into zone of cauvery first, then stratified into soil of red, laterite and black, further stratified into districts and then finally stratified into blocks. Three blocks from each district were randomly selected [nine blocks] and sixty samples were taken out from each selected blocks. Determinants of agriculture growth studied in this article are as follows: agriculture credit, land holdings, irrigated area, farm mechanization, electricity, storage infrastructure, transportation and agricultural market. Farmers’ residence, location, gender, age, education, occupation, family type, members in family and vehicles owned are important demographic profiles which show significance relationship. Findings of the study reveal that there is significance relationship between demographic profile and determinants of agriculture growth. Without proper residence, education, family members, etc not possible to achieve better growth in agriculture to small and marginal farmers. So it is recommended that give importance to agriculture land owned by farmers, provide education to farmers and facilitate additional occupation of farming and so on.