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Land reforms are needed for the following objectives:

1. To increase agricultural productivity- Land reforms are needed to increase agricultural productivity by creating conditions for evolving high levels of efficiency and productivity. Land reforms include consolidation of holdings and cooperative farming to increase the size of the operational unit and to benefit from economies of scale.
2. To eliminate exploitation and to promote social justice- Land reforms seek to improve the socio-economic conditions of farmers by eliminating exploitation in land relations due to intermediaries and reconstructing agrarian relations to achieve social justice. Its main objective is to establish an egalitarian society by eliminating inequality.

After independence, the Indian government undertook various measures including land reforms to improve the condition of agriculture. The impact of land reforms has been the abolition of the zamindari system and providing security of ownership rights to tenants. But land reforms could make only limited success because of a lack of political will and poor implementation.