Small farmers in Karnataka feel that it is better for their children to take up jobs with a regular salary since income from agriculture is low and often crops are damaged due to vagaries of nature, points out a study based on in-depth interviews.
Farmers with one to five acres of irrigated land and up to seven acres of non-irrigated land were interviewed in Koppal, Raichur, Kalaburagi, and Hubballi as part of research spread across Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh by The/Nudge Institute, Centre for Rural Development.
About 66% of the participating farmers were above 40 years. As many as 89% of the respondents did not want their children to take up farming. In all, 107 farmers were interviewed between November 2021 and February 2022.
