Aakash GargAIR 5 · CSE 2024 · 182 wordsTheir whole copy
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Post independence, in order to improve the condition of farmers and boost agriculture productivity, many initiatives like tenancy reforms, land ceiling etc. were undertaken.
Significance of Land Reforms
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Tenancy Reforms: It provided land to the actual tiller freeing them from clutches of exploitative landowners.
Land Ceiling: By redistributing the excess land among the landless, the people got an avenue for employment and earn income.
Land Consolidation: It enabled use of new technology like big farm machineries, micro irrigation etc. boosting productivity.
land Records: It has helped reduce litigation and has enabled the use of land as collateral for receiving credit reducing dependency on moneylenders and investing in better farm inputs.
Challenges:
- Benami Transactions to escape laws.
- Excessive litigation which had extended the process.
- Nexus between landowners and bureaucracy denying rights to beneficiaries. e.g: Naxalbari Movement.
- Improper redistribution of land.
- Mostly infertile land was confiscated.
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While land reforms enabled more than 2G farmers to own land and has helped in rise of incomes but as MS Swaminathan said, it is still an unfinished agenda.
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