A STUDY ON LIVELIH OO D SECURITY OF FARMERS IN V IR U D H U N A G A R DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU
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2009-07-10
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
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At the time o f our Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru said, "Everything
else can wait, hut not agriculture”. Unfortunately this profound truth is yet
to be converted into concrete policies and action on an adequate scale.
The geographical area o f India is 328.7 m illion hectares, net sown
area is 142 million hectares and gross cropped area is 190 million hectares.
According to 2001 census, the population of India is 1027 millions, of which
742 million constitutes rural population and 285 million constitutes urban
population. Our country’s population is increasing at a rate o f 1.90 per
cent. In our total population, 128 million constitutes cultivators, 107 million
constitutes agricultural labourers and other workers constitute 167 million.
Of the world’s six billion people, 2.8 billion live on less than two dollars
a day, of whom 1.2 billion live on less than one dollar a day. Unemployment
and underemployment are endem ic in the econom ies of the developing
world and up to 815 million people are unable to obtain the food they need
for an active and healthy life (FAO, 2001). Progress over the last ten years
in reducing the number of people living in absolute poverty has been mixed.
In East Asia and the Pacific, the number of people in absolute poverty has
been reduced by 192 million, but the gains have not been evenly spread
between countries. In Africa during the same period, the num ber actually
rose by 58 million (Anonymous, 2002). Put crudely, almost half o f the world’s
population does not have the socio-economic and political means to realize
their economic and social rights. One of the m ajor causes o f poverty is the
lack of viable livelihoods in the developing world.
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