An Analysis of Tenant Farmers Condition and Difficulties at Macro and Micro level

By : K. Kiran Kumar

Page No: 207-215

Abstract
Agriculture provides livelihood to more than half of the nation’s population, which mainly include self-cultivating farmers who are land owners, landless labourers and tenants who do not hold ownership of land. Historically different types of tenancy existed all over the country such as fixed rent tenancy and share cropping tenancy. Agriculture is predominantly the main occupation of tenant farmers who depend on lease land to cultivate crops. To reduce the predominantly existing ‘tenancy culture’ and protect the tenants in the country over a period of time, central and state governments have implemented various polices such as land reforms, tenant protection policies. However, even now tenants are one of the most vulnerable sections in the agriculture sector. The present study analyzes the current conditions and difficulties of the tenant farmers in various states along with field study in the village.

Author :
K. Kiran Kumar :  Ph.D scholar at School of Economics in University of Hyderabad.