Vibhusha Gupta

Vibhusha Gupta
The smallholder's dilemma
The economic unviability of smallholder agriculture and the consequent agrarian distress
Ananya Mukerji
Posted on 11 Oct, 2021 09:20 PM

Roughly 85 percent of the farm households in India are small or marginal farmers, that is, they have less than 2 hectares of land, with 70 percent having less than 1 hectare of land. The average landholding is only 0.5 hectares per household (NSO, 2021).
Smallholder farmers are pivotal to transforming the food systems (Image: Mahila Jagat Lihaaz Samiti)
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