Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 09:37 pm:

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Tilak:

In 1995, rainwater filled a nearby pond and flooded his land. Since then, Radheshyam moved to Agra, 113 km to the west, and worked whatever job he could find.

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Abcdefghij:

on side note, socialist kaburlu cheppakandi andariki 1/2 acre iste cultivation emi easy kadu...nor production dentlo vundevi dantlo vuntayi...

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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 09:36 pm:

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Abcdefghij:

nri's are peanuts...vuchha takkuva voopudu ekkuva type...

not sure how NRI's buying lands help...infact vallu farming cheyaru...kauli ki istaru vallu inka ekkuva nokkutaru its a cycle.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 09:20 pm:

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Stellar:

caste based reservation system vunnantha varaku kotha kotha castes adugutane vuntaru

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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 09:20 pm:

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Tilak:

Jats, Marathas, Patels etc ki reservations adugutunnaru .. though ee "big" farmers ninda undedi vaalle aina kuda .. show some mercy yaa ..

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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 09:19 pm:

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Tilak:

Jats, Marathas, Patels etc ki reservations adugutunnaru .. though ee "big" farmers ninda undedi vaalle aina kuda .. show some mercy yaa ..

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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 09:19 pm:

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Abcdefghij:

socialist kaburlu cheppakandi

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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 09:19 pm:

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Taurus0807:

Govt has to allow all NRIs to buy lands and enter into agricultural farming.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 09:17 pm:

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Tilak:

Jats, Marathas, Patels etc ki reservations adugutunnaru .. though ee "big" farmers ninda undedi vaalle aina kuda .. show some mercy yaa ..

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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 08:15 pm:

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Scorpio:

Too much population for too little resources...

Only solution is to move of the land and migrate to west....

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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 06:17 pm:

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Almost three decades ago in 1990, Radheshyam, 49, was given half an acre of farm land free, taken away from a landlord as part of what was then a 40-year-old state law that allows distribution of such land to the poor.

One of 5.78 million beneficiaries of land redistribution nationwide, Radheshyam - he uses only one name - got his land within 45 days of being shortlisted by the gram sabha (village council) in his village of Bebar in the western Uttar Pradesh district of Mainpuri.

For the next five years, Radheshyam grew foodgrain on his half acre, which yielded about eight quintals of rice and six of wheat every year. After buying fertiliser, pesticides, manure and water, the land provided mainly enough for his family of eight.

In 1995, rainwater filled a nearby pond and flooded his land. Since then, Radheshyam moved to Agra, 113 km to the west, and worked whatever job he could find.

Steeped in debt, he now believes that the land he - and others in his village, of about 310,000 statewide - got after the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950, was too little to change his life.

Radheshyam�s situation reflects the general failure of a 54-year-old Indian programme to take land from the rich and give it to the poor.

Why it is difficult to reverse more than half a century of land-reform failures

Five facts, gleaned from the 2011-12 agricultural census and 2011 socio-economic caste census and this correspondent�s data, summarise the failure of India�s land reforms:

No more than 4.9 per cent of farmers control 32 per cent of India�s farmland.
A �large� farmer in India has 45 times more land than the �marginal� farmer.
101.4 million - or 56.4 per cent - of rural households own no agricultural land.
Only 12.9 per cent of land marked - the size of Gujarat - for takeover from landlords was taken over by December 2015.
Five million acres - half the size of Haryana - was given to 5.78 million poor farmers by December 2015.
What has largely failed nationwide - with the exception of West Bengal - over 54 years since a land-redistribution law was passed is not likely to improve, according to data in a response this correspondent received to a right-to-information (RTI) application filed with the Department of Land Resources of the Indian government�s ministry of rural development.

The average land given to the rural landless is small and falling, from 0.95 acres in 2002 to 0.88 acres in 2015 - a 7.4 per cent drop over 13 years�and a slowdown is evident in the process of taking land away from rich landlords, the RTI data reveal.

As of December 2015, land declared �surplus� (meaning, it could be taken away from landlords) across India stood at 6.7 million acres; the government took over 6.1 million acres; and distributed 5.1 million acres - less than half the area of Haryana, or five-and-a-half times the area of Goa - to 5.78 million people.

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