00686nam a2200121Ia 450000500170000008000180001710000190003524500670005426000760012130000100019752003380020758300190054520260716043515.0  a07.05.03 S618  aSingh, Sukhpal  aContract farming in India : impacts on women and child workers  bInternational Institute for Environment and DevelopmentaLondonGBc2003  a24 p.  aDraws on case studies of hybrid cottonseed production in Andhra Pradesh and vegetable farming in Punjab to examine labour conditions in contract farming in India.  Argues that agriculture is becoming 'formalised' as men move out of the sector more quickly than women, and as women become the preferred labour type for many employees.  c12/29/03kJOYD