INDIAN FARMER (భారతీయ రైతు )

when we call the household as agri-household?

As per NSSO,  which has at least one member was self-employed in agriculture (even if part-time) and which produced at least Rs 3,000 worth of agricultural produce in a year.

·        Our country's 60% of rural households are agricultural households.

·        Each household earns 7000/-per month.

·        90%of our farmers hold less than 5acres. 

·       50% of farmers in debt trap.

·        The average loan amount outstanding for a farm household in India today is Rs. 47,000.

 A farm household needs to have at least 1 hectare of land to make ends meet every month.

Over 65 per cent of households have less than one hectare of land, this means that two out of three farm households are simply not able to make ends meet.

·       Input costs work out to nearly 30 per cent of the total output an average farm household gets from a crop.

·        Among inputs, fertilizers are the most expensive, followed by labour.