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This is with reference to the article, `Sons of the soil' (Business Line, December 15).

The `reduction' in farmers is most probably due to the conversion of marginal and small farmers into landless labourers, which again could be due to the uneconomical size of land holdings.

Yet another reason could be that these farmers must have not been able to repay the loans taken against their lands as a result of which their holdings would have been acquired by the moneylenders.

Jagdeep Singh

Mumbai

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