0 land that is found on the edge of cultivated areas and is often difficult to grow crops on --
1 farming land that is of poor quality and does not produce much profit: --
That is, the problem of the marginal land.
However, if that cannot be done directly, there are other ways in which grants or assistance for hill farming and marginal land can be considered.
It is really no good giving subsidies to farms on marginal land which can never make a profit.
I should like to see such farms considered under a marginal land scheme.
To carry a heavy annual rate of interest is sometimes not at all easy on marginal land.
Two out of every three farmers on hill and marginal land are earning no more than the value of their own family labour.
What is to be done for the small farmer who is struggling on marginal land?
Much of it is on hill or marginal land.