Question

The Green Revolution and the land

reforms are the two measures adopted by the policy makers of

independent India to resolve the

problem of agricultural stagnation

in India. State the features of these two policies​

Answer 1

Answer:

Agriculture development implies giving assistance to farmers or crop producers by providing them various agricultural support. Providing security, helping in the research area, employing advanced techniques, checking pests and facilitating diversity all fall under the category of agriculture development. In the colonial dominion, there was neither equity nor growth in the agricultural division. The strategy and rule makers of independent India addressed these problems through land reforms and advancing the use of ‘High Yielding Variety’ (HYV) seeds which guided in a revolution in Indian agriculture.

Land Reforms in India

Land reform means equity in agriculture, which also means the shift in the ownership of landholdings. Land reform normally relates to the redistribution of land from the rich to the poor. More deeply, it involves control of operation, ownership, sales, leasing, and inheritance of land. In a country like India with vast deficiency and irregular arrangement, of land, with a huge mass of the rural people below the poverty line, there are captivating economic and political disputes for land reform.

In recent years the theory of land reforms has expanded in the identification of the strategic role of land and agriculture in development. Therefore, Land reform has, become similar to agrarian change or rapid development of the agrarian structure. This structure includes the land tenure system, farm organization, the pattern of cultivation, the scale of the farm operation, the terms of tenancy, and the system of rural credit, marketing, and education. It also deals with advanced technology.