Marginal farmers find it difficult to access govt schemes as their number grows, income shrinks

"This year’s report shows that the percentage of farmers seeking supplementary incomes is increasing year upon year. This could be a secular trend, or conditioned by the delayed monsoon and comparatively milder and late onset of winter in the past few years. For the Kharif season (2023), nearly 50 per cent of the respondents reported crop losses in paddy and cotton, while 45 per cent reported the same in Rabi wheat and potato, thereby impacting their incomes", says Sanjeev Chopra in his column.

Read the State of Marginal Farmers of India 2024' report released by FEED here: https://www.feed.net.in/wp-content/up...

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