Land Reform In Bhutan Essay

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Generally “Land reform is a measurement to separate a large piece of land which is to be given to small farmers or landless farmers where it redistributes an agricultural land by separating large land holdings and distributes to small peasants or landless people which helps to have equal division of land to everyone”(oxford dictionary). Around the world many of the countries have implemented land reform in their country where some are successful and some is unsuccessful. However Bhutan’s first land reform was held in 1950s which was partly successful. By talking briefly about the situation of land act in history, according to Tashi Yetsho’s article, “ prior to 1950s Bhutan has feudalistic structure system of land where land is owned by the …show more content…

And most of the farmers are found with small land holding or landless farmers so in order to have equal distribution of land to nation’s people, country should have redistribution of land by forming some reliable agenda. Suppose government has stated land reform agenda as follows: 1) Confiscate the surplus land from the people who owns more than 25 acres of land and also the land which is not used for the long period of time. 2) Providing suitable technology and infrastructure to develop large scale farming. 3) Providing equal wages to all the workers. By implementing above agenda, a country would experience …show more content…

Therefore to transport finished goods can hardly happen to a country. Small sized economy: Bhutan is a country with small economy where Bhutan is on 105 in global competition index out of 141. So to compete with rest of the world, Bhutan still needs more improvement in many aspects. According to The State of Tsa Wa Tsum “Bhutan is creating equal stakes in the country for all the people as His Majesty stated that the land ownership is the utmost share and investment that a person has in the success of his or her nation and from this can be built his or her future and the future of their children.” Therefore, land reform plays a vital role in person’s life where it helps to build a future of ones. There is not a single country that does not face challenges to the time of redistribution of land, even though Bhutan has a small size of population compared with other countries, Bhutan is still facing several challenges on land reform because some family owns more and 25acres of land and many of the lands are left without utilizing whereas some do not have even a single land. So to distribute land among those landless people, His Majesty the King gives Kyidhu for them which helped to many landless

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