SFAC – Mission Statement

Indian agriculture today is essentially smallholder agriculture; as much as 83% of all cultivators are either marginal or small (which means that they till less than 2 hectares, or 5 acres, of land). The average landholding size has shrunk to 1.2 hectares. Yet across a range of parameters, from intensity of cultivation to per capita use of irrigation and fertilizer, small and marginal farmers are more productive and efficient than large landholders. The challenges that these small producers face can be summed up in three words: