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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Small farmers will dominate Indian agriculture’

‘Small farmers will dominate Indian agriculture’

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published Published on Aug 23, 2014   modified Modified on Aug 23, 2014
-The Hindu


Hyderabad: Small, marginal farmers will continue to dominate Indian agriculture with their number and share in the holdings and cultivated area increasing. They will go in for improved crops and agricultural practices bearing the risks of rising costs, volatile commodity market and difficulties in accessing inputs.

"Their role in the food security of the country is certain. But what is uncertain is their security," said Prof. D. Narasimha Reddy, ICSSR National Fellow. He was delivering a lecture on "Future of small farming and small and marginal farmers in India" as part of the first Prof. G.S. Bhalla memorial lecture here on Thursday. The lecture was organised by the Indian Society of Agricultural Marketing and Centre for Economic and Social Studies.

In the foreseeable future, Prof. Reddy said, India would continue to be a country with world's largest share of rural population. Whether the small marginal farmers would move to a decent life or witness some of them taking their own lives would depend on what the regime would do for their cause.

However, the percentage of employment provided by agriculture sector had come down from 68.6 in 1983 to 48.9 in 2011-12 while in industry the employment generation increased from 13.8 to 24.4 in the same period. In services too the employment potential jumped from 17.6 to 26.7 per cent, Prof. Reddy said.

Small farms were still more efficient though they faced challenges in the large emerging economy. Can they compete in the more globalised marketing strategies like contract farming and value chains, Prof. Reddy wondered.

He regretted that nearly 60 per cent of farmers were left without institutional credit though the credit flow doubled in the 11th plan.


The Hindu, 22 August, 2014, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/small-farmers-will-dominate-indian-agriculture/article6340448.ece


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