The American Bazaar May 26, 2013
NEW DELHI: For the first time in Indian history, there’s been a decrease in the number of farmers in the country. The latest census data shows that the numbers decreased from 127 million in 2001 to 119 million to 2011. The news has led economic analysts to go into an overdrive to decipher its cause and effects.
In the past, despite a constant decrease in the percentage of Indian population cultivating the land, the absolute numbers always increased.
Experts termed the development as an alarm bell on the agrarian crisis. Significantly, as the number of farmers decreased during the decade, the number of the farm laborers increased from 107 million to 144 million. According to government officials, this increase could be due to two reasons. Firstly the farmers many not have been able to sustain tilting their land and after selling it off, they now work as agricultural laborers. -read more-
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