Changing Distribution of Land and Assets in Indian Agriculture

Debarshi Das

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2015, vol. 47, issue 3, 412-423

Abstract: Government reports in India indicate that big farms are losing land in terms of absolute area as well as percentage of land. To understand the nature of accumulation I estimate the distribution of assets of cultivator households and distribution of land of operational landholdings, and examine how they change over time. It is found that the top fifteen percentiles of holdings have lost land share, the bottom fifty percentiles have gained land share. The share of assets of top fifteen percentiles cultivator households has gone up, the bottom fifty percentiles has also gained assets share. Distribution of land and assets of fifteen major states has been estimated. The paper discusses the possible causes and implications of these observations.

Keywords: agricultural investment; assets distribution; land distribution; capitalist transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B24 O13 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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