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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why farmers are likely to ignore Mohan Bhagwat's prescriptions on cattle-based farming -Roshan Kishore

Why farmers are likely to ignore Mohan Bhagwat's prescriptions on cattle-based farming -Roshan Kishore

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published Published on Oct 6, 2017   modified Modified on Oct 6, 2017
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Drastic fall in ownership of male cattle in rural India is testimony to the benefits of farm mechanization in agriculture

New Delhi:
Delivering his customary Vijayadashami speech, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat advised farmers to adopt “cow-based farming” practices as a way out of poverty.

“When we talk about farming with less capital, organic in nature, naturally the point is raised that the large number of farmers in our country are small land holders, without any irrigation facility,” said Bhagwat in his speech. “For such farmers, cow-based farming is the easiest way out for poison-free and less capital-intensive agriculture.”

But there are good reasons why Indian farmers, especially small and marginal ones, are unlikely to pay heed to Bhagwat’s prescriptions.

According to data from successive rounds of the land and livestock surveys conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), the overall number of cattle and buffaloes has been declining over the past decade. Between 2002-03 and 2013, the number of such livestock in the Indian countryside declined by 11.3% to 204 million.

The decline is largely because of increasing mechanization in the countryside which has led to a sharp decline in the adult male bovine population. In 2002-03, 403 households per thousand households in rural India reported owning an adult male bovine animal. This number fell to 223 in the 2013 survey, largely driven by a fall in the male cattle population. The female bovine ownership has also declined, but the decline has been less dramatic.

The choice of whether to own bovines and which one to own is driven largely by economic considerations, as an earlier Plain Facts column pointed out.

And data shows that it is large farmers rather than small ones who are more likely to own cattle and buffaloes. According to the 2013 NSSO survey, average bovine ownership per thousand households among large farmers is five times higher than among marginal farmers. Marginal farmers are those who own less than a hectare of land. Large farmers own more than 10 hectares of land.

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