Abstract

It is a longstanding complaint, ever since Agricultural Colleges were started and Agricultural Departments began to work in India, that very few of the passed students. of these Colleges have taken to private farming, and along with the complaint the usual explanation has also been adduced that the main reason for the disinclination on the part of students to take to farming was due to the fact that the students did not really belong to what is popularly known as the Agricultural classes. The Term "Agricul- tural classes" covers a wide range It may mean those who own large estates and extensive lands or those who own small holdings or it may mean tenants or agricultural labourers. The last class is generally the illiterate class and the first class consists of Zamindars and rich inen, some of them not educated enough, and some of them" inclining to an easy life, or with other avocations to engage their attention. The men with small holdings and the tenant farmers are generally able to make some thing out of their lands, as they live on the spot and attend to all the worries and troubles of a cultivator as they arise from day to day.

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