摘要 : This paper highlights the challenges facing hill farmers in India and how they can be addressed. The paper first dwells on the scale and dimensions of the problem of hill farmers including the two most significant common concerns:... 展开 This paper highlights the challenges facing hill farmers in India and how they can be addressed. The paper first dwells on the scale and dimensions of the problem of hill farmers including the two most significant common concerns: increasing cropland scarcity and water scarcity to maintain agriculture on marginal lands. It explains various dimensions of a new line of thinking on marginal lands and its implications. The next section describes how similar problems were addressed by other nations successfully. To highlight the point that technological options are and have been available, the paper cites examples of hill agriculture success stories from the Himalayan region. The last section analyses the opportunities to find solutions to hill farmers' distress. 收起