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HI6008 Business Research - Holmes InstituteReport on Literature Review

This assessment item seeks to ensure that all students enrolled in the Capstone Unit - Business Research Project - are competent at sourcing relevant and current literature using academic search portals, such as Pro-Quest, and other places where high quality secondary data resides.

Assignment 2 - the Literature Review - is designed to ensure that each team member masters the skills of searching, locating, reading, summarising, and using relevant academic literature and secondary data to create a compelling discussion and/or argument, thereby creating the context for their further research in pursuit of the answer to their research question(s).

Assignment Structure should be the following:

1. An opening statement of the Research Problem and research Question(s) - these should now be more detailed than what you had in your Topic Approval.
2. Discussion of major theories, models or streams of influence around this topic. This provides your lecturer with evidence that you have gone deeper than your initial search now to find literature that leads you toward answering your research question
3. Draw the reader's attention to any contrasting views expressed in prior research in this area and give your view of how differing opinions can be brought together to help answer the research question and ultimately resolve the research problem. [the more comprehensive your literature review, the better. Whatever you do NOT find out in this literature review will leave you with more work to do when you move to the next part of the project, i.e. methodology]
4. Report how it has brought you closer to an answer to your research question(s).
5. Ensure all in text citations are correctly referenced.
6. Add a comprehensive List of References, in Harvard referencing style. [Students please be warned that errors in referencing attract suspicion of plagiarism/academic misconduct and may require detailed investigation, prompting a request for further information from you regarding your sources.
7. Append a statement indicating ‘who wrote which sections of this report'

TOPIC - INDIAN AGRICULTURE MARKETING: CURRENT AND FUTURE PROSPECT

The concept of agriculture marketing is being practised since earlier times but the source of exchange was things rather than money. This system of exchange was known as Barter system. Agriculture sector is considered as the main stray of Indian Economy.(Dolli, M. and Divya, K.S., 2020) Owing to the good infrastructure facilities, transport and efficient marketing channels, it has shown a tremendous growth rate over the past few decades, contributing18%to the National Gross Domestic Product in year 2018-2019. (Singh, A.K., Upadhyaya, A., Kumari, S., Sundaram, P.K. and Jeet, P., 2020)

Looking at the present Scenario of Agriculture marketing in India, where Government of India has passed the three Farm Bills on September 27,2020 i.e. (Sahoo, J. P., Samal, K. C. and Behera, D., 2020)

1. FarmersProduce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act

2. Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act

3. The Essential commodities (Amendment) Act.
Lakhs of Individual farmers along with opposition parties i.e., Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) and All India Kisan Union Committee (AIKU) are considering these bills as Anti-farmer Bills and protesting to take these bills back since date the government has passed these bills.
The main issues that are being proposed by opposition parties are:
• End of Minimum support Price
• Risk of lack of control over their land under contract Farming system
• Exploitation of farmers by corporates by reducing the price of their farm produce in long run.
• Fair of dominance and subjugate

Today, Millions of Farmers along with opposition Parties are protesting on the Borders of Indian Capital city, New Delhi. Moreover, they are being supported by 250 million Indian citizens from all over the world, making this protest the Largest single Protest of Human History.

RESEARCH PROBLEM
There are number of statements given by the Indian Government to justify the benefits that farmer can get with the introduction of these bills. But, despite that, Farmers of India are aware of the potential risks that they might have to face in the near future.They believe that,with the abolishment of Minimumsupport price,Corporates will practice the bargaining power to reduce the price, and they will not get good price for their produce. Moreover, agriculture market majorly depends on demand and supply, but corporates have the power to store the produce, therefore they can control this demand and supply curve, putting farmers and general population at loss.

Therefore, here the question arises, who is government of India actually trying to benefit, Corporate Sector or Indian Farmers?

RESEARCH QUESTION
After carefully analysing the India's current market scenario from the above-mentioned sources, I'll be addressing the following problems:
• major problems faced by the Indian Farmers.
• Who will get benefit from the new Farm Bills: Farmer or Corporate sector?
• The problems which farmers have to face with the introduction of new Farm bills

Attachment:- Business Research.rar