Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Will our farmers be thrown out like stateless immigrants?

Will our farmers be thrown out like stateless immigrants?

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Sep 20, 2019   modified Modified on Sep 20, 2019
-The Telegraph

More than half of the country's small and marginal farmers continue to be left out of the ambit of formal finance

A recent report by the Reserve Bank of India found that despite a plethora of schemes aimed at financial inclusion, only 40.9 per cent of small and marginal farmers have so far been covered by the banking system. Small and marginal farmers are defined as those with operational land holdings of less than two hectares each. They account for around 47 per cent of the operational land holdings. Banks are encouraged to lend to these farmers through the programme of priority sector lending as well as special programmes of financial inclusion. Disappointingly, more than half the small and marginal farmers continue to be left out of the ambit of formal finance. Whatever little the banks can cover, it is disparately distributed across states, with ones in eastern India being the worst sufferers. The reasons are of course well-known. Banks do not want to give loans to citizens who have no adequate collaterals to offer. Hence loans for consumption and working capital are denied reflecting prudent banking practice. The required loans are obtained from the informal sector.

It is well-documented that in India usurious moneylending comes in various forms, even when there is no visible high rate of interest, the transfer of wealth from the farmer to the moneylender is considerably high in case of default. Small and marginal farmers have continued to be a large category in India for decades. Their average uneconomical size of holdings is a mere 1.08 hectares. Hence, they remain vulnerable with little hope of escaping the category, unless they decide to migrate out of the rural sector in search of greener pastures of urban locales and manufacturing jobs. However, with low skills of the migrants and a slowing down of industry, such jobs are alarmingly scarce. They have to fall back on rural sources of subsistence income to survive.

Please click here to read more.

The Telegraph, 20 September, 2019, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/will-our-farmers-be-thrown-out-like-stateless-immigrants/cid/1706139?ref=trending_home-template


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close