The National Statistical Office of the Government of India had conducted the Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India in 2019 (https://lnkd.in/dJNUiYnQ). This provides a comprehensive overview of the status of agriculture as a profession for each state in India and also overall. The important points to emerge from this survey are that there are about 102 million operational holdings with average size of 0.833 hectares of which 72.6 percent are of size less than 1 Ha and another 16.4 percent of size between 1 and 2 Ha. 46 percent of the farmers reported crop losses in the Kharif season and 40 percent in the Rabi season. However, only 11.6 percent farmers reported having insurance in the Kharif season and 9.4 percent in the Rabi season. Even more disturbing is the fact that of those farmers who were insured and suffered crop loss only 16 percent were paid their claims either partially or fully.
The graph below based on the results of the survey shows that the annual net income from crop cultivation is highest at Rs 39420 per hectare for the smallest landholding category and goes down with increasing landholding size and the least for the largest landholding category. Given this low income level from farming the households have to depend on other incomes including wage labour and livestock rearing also to make ends meet. The indebtedness per hectare is the highest for the smallest landholding category at a very high Rs 166100 and goes down with increasing land holding size.Clearly, farming in India is an extremely low paying profession and generally those who advise farmers on how to farm without farming themselves earn many times more 😊 .
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