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As many as 36 per cent farmers in Punjab are ‘marginal farmers’ whose income is less than their expenditure, said Professor Sucha Singh Gill, during a public lecture at Panjab University, Monday. “In India, there are more than 14 crore farm land owners, but among them, only 7 crore are actual farmers, while a large number of them are small marginal farmers,” he said during the lecture. During the lecture, he said that 36 per cent of farmers in Punjab are trapped in debt and are forced to borrow money every year to sustain life. Citing NSSO data, he said, “66 per cent of farmers in India are marginal farmers and these farmers are the ones who will die first.”Advertising“We are living in the era of death of peasantry and commercialisation of social services like education, health and agriculture, is a big threat. Neo-liberalism is a policy model that seeks to transfer public sector into private sector..