A Study on Farmers Crisis in Kodur Village, Chengalpet District

Abstract

Farmers crisis in Kodur is a critical difficulty of challenge as it is adversely affecting the livelihood of folks who depend on agriculture. It refers to slow growth of agricultural area because of decline in agricultural productivity and profitability. An attempt has been made in this text to analyse the reasons of farmers in Kodur. Faulty implementation of agricultural rules, immoderate use of chemical substances degrading agricultural lands, fee volatility shocks confronted through farmers with reduction of exchange limitations on agricultural commodities, distress sale of vegetation due to negative market infrastructure, rise of fragmented landholdings leading to uneconomic way of cultivation are a number of the contributing elements of farmers distress. The vital tasks that would be undertaken in resolving the diverse farmers issues consists of setting up of seed saving banks, encouraging cooperative farming, entitling farmers to unfastened training programmes regarding green use of assets and development of infrastructural facilities to reinforce the agricultural sector.