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"Effort to prevent fragmentation of land"

S. Rajendran

BANGALORE: The Agriculture Ministry's focus is on impressing on farmers the need to look at allied activities if not other avocations. In other words, the effort is to wean people away from agriculture and thus prevent fragmentation of farmland.

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar told The Hindu here on Saturday that the bane of Indian farming was that a large population was dependent on agriculture. With the size of each family increasing, more people were dependent on the same piece of land. Fragmentation added to the problem.

While 56 per cent of the population was dependent on agriculture in India, in most of the developed countries it was only around five per cent. Thus, the per capita income of the farming community in such countries was much higher.

"We have to spread this word and motivate our farm families to look at other occupations as well. This will help in increasing farm holdings and along with it will come mechanised cultivation."

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