Hyderabad, Aug. 15 -- More than 61 per cent of Scheduled Caste (SC) households in Telangana do not own any land, while less than one per cent, 0.68 per cent, of those have crop insurance, according to a recent study.

For the study, An Empirical Investigation into Agricultural Livelihoods of SCs in Telangana, the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) surveyed 10,213 SC households across all 33 districts, covering 300 villages and 100 urban wards, said a report in The New Indian Express.

The study shows that there are about 31.35 per cent marginal farmers and 61.22 per cent small farmers in the state. The figures cover both rural and urban households.

A separate household-mapping exercise across the 400 locations found that 62.5 ...