Question

Collect news items on problems faced by small and marginal farmers and the measures taken by government to solve their problems

Answer 1

the small scale farmers face many problems due to small land the governments should take proper facility's to the farmers and give proper seeds to the farmers

Answer 2

The small and marginal holding farming is crucial for promoting agriculture extension, to promote the economy and food safety in India. However, the small and marginal farmers face various problems, some of them are the following:

1. Seeds: the high yielding variety seeds are not in the reach of these farmers thus they have to use the leftover seeds which are less fertile than the HYV.  

2. Pesticides: these people do not have enough money to buy pesticides to protect their crops from the attack of various viruses.  

3. Technology: as modern technology is costly the small and marginal farmers are not able to buy them thus their contribution to the production remains fluctuated.  

The following are the steps taken by the government of India to solve these problems:

1. The government has initiated various schemes to provide loans to these farmers.

2. They are provided with the facility of marketing; as the government has created markets to buy their product on reasonable rates.