Tenant Farmers

The diffusion of High Yielding Varieties also affected the tenant farmers adversely. In general, the tenant farmers have a low tendency to adopt the new innovations in their cropping patterns as they are not very sure for how long the land will be available to them for cultivation. The difficulties of tenant farmers have multiplied by the astronomical rise in the value of land in recent decades. The tenants want to lease more land while land owners are reorganising the gains to be achieved by direct management of their fields. Under these circumstances, the landlords are reluctant to get into a position where their tenants might be given tide of the land. Numerous evasive tactics have been adopted by the landlords. Some of them have directly evicted their tenants from establishing security of tenure by shifting them frequently. In the absence of more effective land reforms, the prospect is for large number of tenant farmers to join the rank of landless labourers. Compelled by financial constraints, they migrate to big cities in search of employment and to start a new career.