Question

give one reason for small size land holdings in india

Answer 1

Population is too much.Land is inherited .Each family when new members added by marriage or child birth the land gets sub divided making land holdings smaller after every generation.

Answer 2

Overpopulation is the reason for small size land holdings in India.

• The area of land an individual or a family owns is their landholdings.
• As the population increases, the area of land each individual gets to own decreases.
• This results in small size landholdings.
• In India, the majority population owns land inherited from their forefathers.
• Each generation receives the divided, subdivided, and fragmented piece of land owned by the previous generation.
• The area of land never increases but the population keeps increasing rapidly.