Farm assets of agricultural peasants: A geographical analysis of Jorhat District of Assam

Agriculture is the most extensive form of human occupation where half of the world's population earns its livelihood. Agricultural Peasants, dealing with the spatial organisation of different assets, like farm size, agricultural labours, draught animal, irrigation facilities, use of fertilizers, pesticides etc. and their concentration, provides an interesting field in which geographers can play a vital role for well-being of the society. It is true that one cannot expect a uniform pattern of agricultural development in a country like India, with wide variation of natural, economic, cultural and historical conditions. But the objectives of agricultural planning failed to achieve the balanced regional growth in the agricultural sector, as a result of which a wide interstate difference of growth of agricultural production was noticed. In this paper, I am going to study about different assets of agricultural peasants in Jorhat district, Assam. It has been an attempt to find out some remedial measures of different socioeconomic problems of agricultural peasants.