Low productivity of Indian agriculture forced Indian government to bring about land reforms.
These took forms of:
1. Change in ownership holdings: Just a year after independence, steps were taken to abolish intermediaries and to make tillers owners of the land. Legislation was undertaken to immediately abolish Zamindari and to pass the land to the tenants.
2. Land ceiling: This was another policy to promote equity in the agricultural sector. This means fixing the maximum size of land, which could be owned by an individual. The purpose of land ceiling was to reduce the concentration of land ownership which was in just a few hands. Land being scarce, concentration of land meant concentration of wealth.
