DEPEASANTISATION OF FARMERS IN PUNJAB
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v4.i2.2023.3807Keywords:
Depeasantisation, Agrarian Crisis, Low Returns, Indebtedness, Input CostsAbstract [English]
Punjab agriculture has become seriously unremunerative because of steeply rising input costs, the dwindling size of the operational holdings, a perceptible incidence of increasing landlessness, and surrendering holding due to default on debt payment. This Study is based on primary data collected from three districts of Punjab, i.e. Amritsar, Sangrur and Jalandhar. Data shows that the farmers (74.9 per cent) in Punjab want to leave farming if provided other better opportunities and also 9. 6 per cent of farmers already left farming because of the several problems they faced in the agricultural sector. The wards of small and marginal farmers detest working on tiny holdings and instead aspire to settle abroad. Even otherwise they find small holdings too un-remunerative to generate adequate income commensurate with their rising expectations. So, they are inclined to sell land and do sundry jobs and get disillusioned.
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