Land reform failures: Only 5% of India’s farmers control 32% farmland | Landportal
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Five facts, gleaned from the 2011-12 agricultural census and 2011 socio-economic caste census and this correspondent’s data, summarise the failure of India’s land reforms:
– No more than 4.9% of farmers control 32% of India’s farmland.
– A “large” farmer in India has 45 times more land than the “marginal” farmer.
– Four million people, or 56.4% of rural households, own no land.
– Only 12.9% of land marked – the size of Gujarat – for takeover from landlords was taken over by December 2015.
– Five million acres — half the size of Haryana — was given to 5.78 million poor farmers by December 2015.
What has largely failed nationwide — with the exception of West Bengal — over 54 years since a land redistribution law was passed, is not likely to improve, according to data in a response this correspondent received to a Right to Information (RTI) application filed with the department of land resources of the Indian government’s Ministry of Rural Development.