India is the land of farmers. Agriculture being the prime occupation of the masses, the sector consists of a big number of farmers who are either into the agricultural or allied activities. The present legal system consists of the laws which are scattered both in their application and approach to the problems of the farmers in general and small farmers in particular. Some farmers are into industrial labour running the risk of losing their agricultural pattern of living for urban unskilled jobs. Only if there is an appropriate definition of who is a small or marginal farmer, then only the legislations will be able to address the issues of the small and the marginal categories of farmers. The paper seeks to explain that there is not only a need to legally recognise through a legislation that the farmers in India are of many categories, but also that the farmers can benefit only through a separate legislation dedicated entirely to farmers.