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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Amid An Important Farmer Debate, Don't Forget the Woes of India's Landless Workers -Bharat Dogra

Amid An Important Farmer Debate, Don't Forget the Woes of India's Landless Workers -Bharat Dogra

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published Published on Dec 1, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 2, 2020

-TheWire.in

While landless farm workers and landless peasants outnumber land-owning farmers, the former are almost entirely absent in the policy and policy-debates on farming.

What is the most numerous segment of Indian society? Many people routinely believe that it is land-owning farmers. But no, the latest census data says that it is the rural landless who comprise the largest segment of our populace.

At present, the latest census data we have is for the year 2011. This says that a total of 263 million persons (26.3 crore) households are involved in farming activities. Out of this only 119 million persons are land-owning farmers while 144 million are landless workers and peasants. In other words, the number of landless farm workers and landless peasants is significantly higher than those of land-owning farmers. However the former are almost entirely absent in the policy and policy-debates on farming.

Further, the census data reveals that the increase of this largest segment of our population has been very rapid in recent times. In the previous census of 2001 only 107 million landless farm workers were counted, which means that within a decade their number increased by 37 million ( from 107 to 144 million) , a huge increase. Only a relatively small part of this could be due to family divisions and population increase. It is clear that a large number of small farmer (and to a lesser extent rural artisan) households moved towards landless farm worker status. This is a trend which is still continuing at a fast pace as small farmers and rural artisans face increasing livelihood problems.

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TheWire.in, 1 December, 2020, https://thewire.in/agriculture/landless-farmers-rural-workers


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