The state of Punjab, earlier regarded as an agriculturally developed region of India, has been passing through a severe economic crisis. The capital-intensive mode of production, propagated by the green revolution in the mid-1960s, is turning out to be non-viable for the small peasantry and hence, they are being involuntarily manoeuvred towards shifting away from farming. Based on a field study in Punjab during the year 2012-13, it was observed that 14.39% of the farmers had left farming since 1991.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/depeasantization-punjab-status-farmers-who-left-farming
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sukhpal-singh
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/shruti-bhogal
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/current-science
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/punjab
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rupnagar-d
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/patiala-d
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/jalandhar-d
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ludhiana-d
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bathinda-d
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ferozepur-d
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/unemployment