Year: 2014 | Month: March | Volume 59 | Issue 1
Improved Farm Plans for Marginal Farmers in Punjab State
Richa Sharma
DOI:10.5958/J.0976-4666.59.1.009
Abstract:
Punjab is an agriculturally developed state of India. The production pattern of marginal farmers is dominated by paddy-wheat rotation. The agricultural productivity has nearly stagnated and consistent rise in cost of production is resulting in to squeeze profit margin. There is low investment and thus
low production on marginal farms. The present study showed that the marginal farmers suffered from lack of various resources in farm production. Capital was though one of the big constraints on these farms. Due to small size of holding, farmers were sharing their assets with others farmers and
supplemented their income by doing agricultural labour, rearing milch animal etc. This paper examines that income from crop production can be raised by organizing their resources optimally. Thus, there is an urgent need to introduce new high yielding crop and other alternatives on the marginal farms.
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