Who is small farmer

Small farmer has a very less amout of land .

Farmer who has less than 2 hectares of land

A small farmer is a farmer who owns less than 2 hectares (1 hectare= 100 meter x 100 meter) of land. Small farmers often have to take loans from Medium and Large Farmers, Banks and Moneylenders. A good example of a story of a small farmer will be the story of Savita from NCERT: "Savita is a small farmer. She plans to cultivate wheat on her 1 hectare of land. Besides seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, she needs cash to buy water and repair her farm instruments. She estimates that the working capital itself would cost a minimum of Rs 3,000. She doesn’t have the money, so she decides to borrow from Tejpal Singh, a large farmer. Tejpal Singh agrees to give Savita the loan at an interest rate of 24 per cent for four months, which is a very high interest rate. Savita also has to promise to work on his field as a farm labourer during the harvest season at Rs 100 per day. As you can tell, this wage is quite low. Savita knows that she will have to work very hard to complete harvesting on her own field, and then work as a farm labourer for Tejpal Singh. The harvest time is a very busy time. As a mother of three children she has a lot of household responsibilities. Savita agrees to these tough conditions as she knows getting a loan is difficult for a small farmer." The above extract from the NCERT Economics book for Class 9 shows the difficulties and hardships faced by small farmers.

The farmer who have a less area of cultivating land