Explain the difficulties faced by the small farmers due to lack of capital
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1) With less money in hand, farmers can't make use of the high yielding variety seeds that are more productive.They can only buy the traditional seeds.
2) They can't buy modern tools and equipments like tractors, other machines and have to rely upon old tools of farming.
3) They can't buy expensive fertilizers and pesticides to yield best results and to protect their crops from damage.
4) As they can't use modern methods, their crop fields give lower output, sometimes the crop gets destroyed by pests ,thus decreasing the standard of living of farmers.
5) The crop field gives lower productivity, not good quality of crop can be grown.
This pushes the farmers into poor state.
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a. Farmers with small plots of land lack adequate capital to develop and take loans from money lenders in rural areas which they are unable to pay back because of high rate of interests They become victims of indebtedness and suffer.
b. Small farmers with less capital cannot use latest techniques in their methods of production like tractors, threshers and are dependent on old methods of ploughing.
c. They do not have enough capital to use HYV of seeds, fertilizers.
d. They generally have small production and do not get adequate return for their crops.
e. Most of the farmers lack savings and pressure to bear burden of large families further adds to their plight.
f. Small farmers are dependent on monsoon for their irrigation needs unlike large farmers who have their own private tube wells.