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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Who is a farmer? Government has no clear definition -Priscilla Jebaraj

Who is a farmer? Government has no clear definition -Priscilla Jebaraj

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published Published on Dec 2, 2019   modified Modified on Dec 2, 2019
-The Hindu

Such an ambiguity has serious implications for the design and beneficiaries of schemes meant to help them

Who is a farmer? What is the government’s definition of a farmer and how many farmers are there in India by that definition?

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar failed to answer that question when it was asked in Parliament last week. The government’s ambiguity has serious implications for the design and beneficiaries of the schemes meant to help them, including its flagship PM-KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi).

The question was posed in the Rajya Sabha by BJP MP Ajay Pratap Singh who also asked whether any survey had been conducted to find out the number of farmer families.

Agriculture a State subject, says Minister


In a written response, the Agriculture Minister evaded giving any definition of a farmer and instead said agriculture is a State subject. He provided data on the number of agricultural landholdings and noted that the Centre provides income support to all farmer families who own cultivable land, that is, via the PM-KISAN scheme.

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The Hindu, 2 December, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/who-is-a-farmer-government-has-no-clear-definition/article30131511.ece


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