Rebooting Economy 52: The unfinished agenda of land reforms nobody talks about
Landless, marginal, and small farmers together constitute 93.7% of the total agricultural workforce in India. Can sustainable agricultural growth and farmers' well-being be achieved without land reforms?
Prasanna Mohanty | December 14, 2020 | Updated 14:02 IST
It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that India needs land reform urgently to ensure people's well-being and sustainable economic growth
While farmers' protest has occupied the political centre stage, India has forgotten the other part of the agricultural workforce: landless agriculture workers who also double-up as tenant farmers and sharecroppers and are officially recognised as "poorest of the poor".