{"id":148129,"date":"2021-11-22T20:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=148129"},"modified":"2021-11-22T20:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:04:40","slug":"failure-at-the-tri-junction-of-land-income-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/failure-at-the-tri-junction-of-land-income-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure at the tri-junction of land, income and identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News: <\/strong>The centrality of land to people\u2019s lives is key to understanding the reasons behind the year-long, rigid opposition to the three farm laws by the farmers.<\/p>\n

The ongoing land acquisition issue between the Archaeological Society of India (ASI) and over 10 agricultural families in Dholaivra is a case point that explains the significance of land attached to people’s lives.<\/p>\n

This story seen in the context of farm laws will help us to understand why Farmers were agitating rigidly against the farm laws.<\/p>\n

What is the issue between the Archaeological Society of India (ASI) and the agricultural families in Dholaivra?<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the early 1990s, the ASI, acquired land from over 10 agricultural families around the excavation site to expand its discovery coverage.<\/p>\n

However, none of the families accepted the compensation because they felt it was too little. They wanted either jobs or equivalent parcels of land anywhere else.<\/p>\n

The ASI couldn\u2019t comply, forcing land-owners to seek legal redressal. The case has been dragging for more than 25 years. This issue illustrates, the significance of the land.<\/p>\n

How significant is land to people\u2019s livelihood?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Land is a source for livelihood<\/strong>: Land is one of the two primary factors of production, capital, and labour. The land is capital, and when coupled with labour, it yields a regular income.<\/p>\n

Land serves important social functions<\/strong>: For many agricultural families, despite their marginal holdings, land serves as the basis for social, cultural, linguistic, and filial ties.<\/p>\n

How the significance associated with land is connected to farm laws?<\/strong><\/p>\n

First,<\/strong> the farmers were afraid that the farm laws were designed for the benefit of large conglomerates that could use their influence to control farmers and the farm trade.<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> the farm income has been declining owing to a decline in operational agricultural land-holding. For example, The National Statistical Office\u2019s 2019 survey<\/strong> on farm incomes, showed that farmers with less than 2 acres of land (90% of all farmers) had suffered poor income growth from cultivation over the past decade.<\/p>\n

In this context, the farm laws gave rise to fears that even this income would be further compressed under corporate pressure, forcing many farmers to eventually lose their capital.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201cFailure at the tri-junction of land, income and identity<\/strong>\u201d published in Live mint on 22nd<\/sup> November<\/strong> 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: The centrality of land to people\u2019s lives is key to understanding the reasons behind the year-long, rigid opposition to the three farm laws by the farmers. The ongoing land acquisition issue between the Archaeological Society of India (ASI) and over 10 agricultural families in Dholaivra is a case point that explains the significance of… Continue reading Failure at the tri-junction of land, income and identity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-148129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704949546},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}