Agricultural reforms were introduced in the late 19's .It was a result of green revolution which was introduced in 1960's .It was introduced under the Congress party .This is the only work of congress that I liked😂. What about your experience about congress ?? Sorry I am going out of topic but it was important 😂.
The agricultural reforms are namely technical reforms (also known as new agricultural reforms), Institutional reforms( also known as land reforms) and General reforms.Before knowing about these reforms you need to know what is agriculture , it's importance, it's limitations, it's features and many more things.
Agriculture is an activity of primary sector ( there are three sectors in the economy ie . Primary sector, secondary sector, tertiary sector). Agriculture lies in the primary sector In India about 72% of people were engaged in agriculture in 19's and this figure had came down to about 50%. Which is a nice indicator for Indian economy .The agricultural sector is important for India because it employees the most of the rural people and it is a means to generate employment for secondary and tertiary sector. If we talk about features of agriculture in 19's the agriculture sector was the largest contributer to GDP (GDP stands for gross domestic product). It was stagnant means it was not able to grow . If we discuss limitation of agricultural sector we can find that agricultural sector contributes the highest to the economy but fails to provide employment opportunities.
Now we will discuss about reforms in details The technical reforms aimed at using HYV (high yielding variety ) seeds , use of chemical fertilizers, use of intensifies and fertilizers for crop production , scientific form of management practices, mechanised means of farming.
2. The institutional reforms also known as land reforms aimed at abolishing of intermediaries, regulation of rent, consolidation of holdings ,ceiling on land holdings ( means fixation of land),cooperative farming .The two main objectives of land reforms are :
To promote equality in rural economy
To finish exploitation of tillers of the soil and to make them generate surplus for investment and increasing productivity.
The general reforms are a mixture of both reforms it aimed at commercialisation of farming .In fact all reforms aimed at commercialisation of farming (which means producing crop to sell at markets) before the agriculture reforms the farmers were producing crops for subsistence (which means to use for themselves)