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NEGATIVE SOCIAL IMPACT
▪ Contract farming of export-oriented products
such as flowers and gherkins also means that
agricultural land is diverted away from food grain
production.
▪ Contract farming has sociological significance in
that it disengages many people from the
production process and makes their own
indigenous knowledge of agriculture irrelevant.
▪ In addition, contract farming caters primarily to
the production of elite items, and because it
usually requires high doses of fertilisers and
pesticides, it is often not ecologically
sustainable.
