Farming always has been a risky business and in all likelihood always will be. The changing environmental factors are creating much uncertainty and high risks. The changing outlook of risk management focuses on various risks faced in farming. Turmeric farming is one such trade that is vulnerable to many kinds of risks. This study focuses on the risk factors prevailing in the turmeric trade. Erode being the economic zone for turmeric; it is taken up to study the extent and the causes of risk. Instability of turmeric prices has always been a major concern of the producers, processors, traders,...