• Kuldeep Walia

Land is the important resource for food, shelter and clothes. Land is an essential natural resource, both for the survival and prosperity of humanity and for the maintenance of all global ecosystems The initial years of the 21st century show that small holdings in Punjab agriculture still exhibit a higher productivity than large holdings. These smallholdings however show lower per capita productivity and the incidence of poverty is widespread. Strategies for Indian agriculture and smallholding households should include reducing the inequality in land distribution and promoting off-farm work in the rural areas itself. Demographic pressure has pushed down the land: man ratio to less than 0.2 hectares of cultivable land per head of rural population. It has also progressively pushed down the size structure of land holdings. The farmers are successfully producing crops in spite of many hardships. however all this will change in the coming decades as growing population, further fragmentation, land conversion will be lead to lower productivity, shortage of labour and dwindling natural resources.

Division and Fragmentation of land, Farm Holdings, Productivity

"Agricultural Reforms Issues and Challenges in Punjab", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 10, page no.688-693, October-2016, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A98.pdf

"Agricultural Reforms Issues and Challenges in Punjab", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 10, page no. pp688-693, October-2016, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A98.pdf