By Bharat Dogra, Jagmohan Singh*  Conventional analysis of the well-being of farmers often looked at the productivity, yields and income derived from their farms. However it is increasingly realized that this by itself is a narrow, inadequate and short-term view.  This ignores important factors such as sustainability, bio-diversity and environment protection, costs incurred by farmers and the extent of their dependence, creativity and sense of satisfaction farmers have in their work, impact of farming on their health, nutrition made available by their farming to their own families (apart from others who buy their produce). Of course the economic well-being of the farmer is very important but this must be understood in a wider context.