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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why restrictions on renting agricultural land in India must go -Sanjoy Patnaik

Why restrictions on renting agricultural land in India must go -Sanjoy Patnaik

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published Published on Jun 12, 2016   modified Modified on Jun 12, 2016
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Land leasing laws are negatively impacting the people they are supposed to benefit, pulling agricultural productivity down, and increasing land degradation.

Nearly one-third of India is reeling under drought, evident from reports and images of distressed farmers and parched land captured in the media. The increasing unpredictability of rainfall and prolonged hot patches has severely impacted rural farmland and, consequently, the people dependent on agriculture. Drought and resultant crop loss, in some cases, has led to farmers, especially the small and marginal ones, migrating to urban areas for a living, while some have been driven to committing suicide.

Among the people most impacted by drought and a dire rural economy are the poorest of the poor in rural areas – the landless, and the small and marginal farmers. Most of India’s poor rural, women and men, make their living by working as agricultural wage labourers or by leasing in other people’s farmlands. Getting access to land by renting, while not as ideal as owning land, provides some relief to the rural landless and marginal and small farmers. Various studies show that close to 35% of India’s agricultural land is cultivated by tenant farmers who are either landless or are small and marginal farmers.

Despite at least 25 million rural households practicing agricultural land rentals, the practice of renting such land in India is legally restricted. The associated challenges of such restriction are: a) tenant farmers not technically defined as farmers are, as a result, unable to avail of benefits provided by government to farmers including credit and other farm inputs and subsidies, b) tenant farmers’ access to agricultural markets is limited as they are not land owners.

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Scroll.in, 10 June, 2016, http://scroll.in/article/808594/why-restrictions-on-renting-agricultural-land-in-india-must-go


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