DEFINITION OF FARMER

Dec. 8, 2019

Union Agriculture Minister failed to reply in Parliament to a question that Who is a farmer? What is the government’s definition of a farmer, and how many farmers are there in India by that definition?

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In a written response, the Minister only noted that the Centre provided income support to all farmer families who owned cultivable land through PM-KISAN.
Opposition MPs pointed out that the number of land holdings did not necessarily equate with the number of farming households.
The government’s ambiguity has serious implications for the design and beneficiaries of the schemes meant to help them, including its flagship PM-KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi).

Source : The Hindu

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