Question
Download Solution PDFA farmer, which has land holding between 1 to 2 hectares is known as:
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is a small farmer.
Key Points
Farmer -
- Marginal farmer -
- A farmer having less than one hectare (2.5 acres) are called a marginal farmer.
- However, the average landholding of marginal farmers, who constitute around 65 per cent of total farmers in India, is less than one acre (0.4 hectares) and the average landholding of small farmers is around three acres (1.21 hectares).
- Small farmer -
- Farmers having less than two hectares (five acres) of land are called small farmers.
- A farmer implies a farmer’s agricultural area of more than 1 hectare and up to 2 hectares as owner or tenant or sharecropper. Hence the correct answer is 4.
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