March 1, 1969 While irrigation and new techniques of cultivation can help the marginal farmers to become viable, there are hundreds of sub-marginal farmers who require help to take up subsidiary occupations so as to supplement their meagre income from land. The Small Farmers' Development Agency has to help these farmers to take up dairying, poultry-farming, etc.
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