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What are the reasons for the decline in the size of agricultural holdings in India?

Following are the reason for the decline in the size of holding:

a. increase in population with no significant increase in land holding for cultivation has reduced agricultural holding


b. Sub-division of land holding between members


c. Not easy to develop small pieces of holding, hence their output keeps on reducing with a further decline in sizes.


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