Executing a land reform is of utmost importance if the evils prevailing in land reforms have to be done away with. There are many ways of executing a land reform. It is a well known fact that there is widespread inequality among the landowners and the landless. Despite, such conditions, the agrarian reforms are not implemented. To bring about equality, certain measures need to be taken. It is also necessary that the rural people ought to cooperate with the officers and should have the interest to update their technical knowhow. However, the need for political stability cannot be ignored.
Obstacles in executing a land reform:
- It has been observed that the reforms suggested are not followed religiously. Often, there is a wide disparity between what is actually targeted and what is actually attained. For optimum implementation of the agrarian reform, a solid political backup is required.
- The rural population is often urged to work in unison with the urban people. This association does not materialize always. A gap continues to remain.
- Owing to personal interests of the leaders, who have just lost in a revolution, they make all efforts in distracting the landless people and these leaders try to stir the needy against the authorities. In majority of the cases, these scrupulous moves do not fall on deaf ears. Due to this, the agrarian reform loses the motion of implementation.
- In most of the cases, the officials supervising the reforms, belong to families owning landed property. So, they are unable to actually fathom the position of the landless. Even if there are officials, who do not belong to solvent families, they are vulnerable to bribes.
When a revolution is on or after a revolution has concluded, the leaders must make it a point to win the confidence of the rural people, by executing the agrarian reform. It is generally seen that when leaders begin to officiate, initially, they make many promises and once when stay put in their offices, they lose interest in the agrarian reforms. Collectivization is also a way of executing a land reform. Another method of executing a land reform is suggesting alternatives. It has been proved that at times taxes can be of some help.