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Indian Economy 1950-1990

Question
CBSEENEC11008740

What are the agrarian reforms?

Solution

Agrarian reforms refer to all those measures which aim at improving agricultural production and productivity. There are two types of measures-institutional measures and technological measures. Institutional measures are also known as land reform measures. The present agrarian structure in India is defective which acts as an obstacle to improvements in agriculture. It has mainly two aspects : (i) The problem of unit of ownership, (ii) The problem of unit of cultivation.