Question

What is the definition of a small and marginal farmer in India?

Answer 1

Answer:

Those with less than 2 hectares of farm land are referred as small and marginal farmers. They comprise about 86.2 percent of the country’s total farmers.

Marginal farmer

A farmer with a modest amount of subsistence pay from his private land, who seldom works as an agricultural labour. Marginal farmer means an agricultural tract of up to 1 hectare for a peasant farming as a owner or tenant or share cropper.

Small farmer

A farmer implies a farmer’s agricultural area of more than 1 hectare and up to 2 hectares as owner or tenant or share cropper.