Land-pooling to hit small farmers hardest

Land-pooling to hit small farmers hardest - Sakshi Post

The Chandrababu Naidu's government's land-pooling system may hit the majority of farmers, mostly those with small holdings.

Recently, the government announced that the land for new capital of Andhra Pradesh will be procured from farmers through land-pooling. According to reports, nearly 85% farmers in Guntur district have less than 5 acres of land.
The government is looking at acquiring 75,000 to one lakh acres under ‘land-pooling’ system and if this gets implemented, hundreds of families will be evacuated. The people are worried that thousands of farmers around Guntur district are depend on small land-holdings, which are mainly used for agriculture. They will lose their livelihood if their land was taken away.
Though the government promised that farmers would be shared a portion of their land after development, farmers are not sure that how many years the government will take to construct the capital and how much money they would get in return.
The million dollars question is that if the land will be taken away from the small farmers, how would they survive?


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