ASIAN countries face a farming crisis and no amount of income support will be enough to address the problems and risks faced by farmers, according to agriculture experts.
ASIAN countries face a farming crisis and no amount of income support will be enough to address the problems and risks faced by farmers, according to agriculture experts.
In the Rural Development and Food Security Forum on Monday, Mekhala Krishnamurthy of the India-based Ashoka University said farmers face interlinked risks that have scale, frequency, complexity and are context-specific.
Krishnamurthy said this is mainly due to land ownership and access insecurity; their being tenants and sharecroppers which prevents them from accessing inputs and credit; land fragmentation due to intergeneration transfers and urbanization, among others.
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