AN OVERVIEW OF AGRARIAN DISTRESS IN HARYANA

REENA DAHIYA¹*, MANOJ SIWACH^2
1Govt. College Bhuna, Fatehabad, 125111, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, 125055, Haryana, India
²Govt. College Bhuna, Fatehabad, 125111, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, 125055, Haryana, India
* Corresponding Author : dahiyareena123@gmail.com

Received : 06-12-2022     Accepted : 28-12-2022     Published : 30-12-2022
Volume : 14     Issue : 12       Pages : 12023 - 12027
Int J Agr Sci 14.12 (2022):12023-12027

Keywords : Agriculture Sector, Production, Agrarian Distress
Academic Editor : Dr Prashant Shrivastava
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Govt. College Bhuna, Fatehabad, 125111, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, 125055, Haryana, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

Agriculture is the principal source of Income for more than 50 per cent of population. Haryana is an agricultural developed state but the peasantry in Haryana is under tremendous burden of debt, falling profits, disintegration of land holdings, rising pressure of population on agriculture sector and saturation in productivity and production. The symptoms of agrarian distress have been seen in Haryana. Keeping this in view, the present paper attempts to analyse the overview of agrarian distress in Haryana. For this study, data have been taken from secondary sources such as Statistical Abstracts of Haryana, Agriculture Census of India and the NSSO data. Data have been taken for period of 1985-86 to 2021-22. For analysing the results descriptive statistical analytical tools were used and annual compound growth rate for agricultural production, productivity and agriculture expenditure was also used by fitting exponential function. The study found that the level of agrarian distress among farmers increased due to predominance of small number of farmers which have not reap the benefit of economies of scale. The growth rate of agriculture and allied activities remains unstable from last two decades. The burden of debts as well as stress of payments of debts was increased on farmers. The declining trends in the plan expenditure on agriculture and allied activities in Haryana may affect the overall long term development of agriculture sector in Haryana

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