India has a large percentage of its population still living in rural areas and dependent on agriculture for their livelihood. The figure was 69 per cent as per the 2011 Census. Agriculture and allied sectors engage slightly more than half the workforce. The majority of cultivators are small and marginal farmers with less than 2 hectares of land. Agriculture in the country, however, is in crisis with crop cultivation having been rendered unviable for a significant share of the cultivator households following the onset of neoliberal reforms in 1990s.