The 2016 Report of the Haque Committee has proposed liberalization of tenancy market on grounds of efficient land utilization in favour of small landowners. But leasing is seldom done by small to big farmers and owning even a small piece of land provides economic security to the rural poor. Such provisions will only facilitate grabbing of land of the poor by resource-rich landlords and capitalist farmers.


* This article was originally published in the News Click on November 3, 2019.

** This article is based on Bansal, Vaishali, Usami, Yoshifumi, and Rawal, Vikas (2018), "Agricultural Tenancy in Contemporary India", Society for Social and Economic Research.