where the agricultural activities are informal in nature and more than 80 percent farmers are small and marginal farmers (who are not able to produce any marketable surplus) is difficult. In fact, there is controversy related to the direction of net resource transfers between agriculture and other sectors. One argument holds that net capital transfers to agriculture are needed so that agricultural production maybe increased to meet the greater demand for food, which accompanies industrial development,28 whereas the contrasting argument calls for a squeeze on agriculture, transferring resources to other sectors