( 1 ) THE Andhra Pradesh Legislature enacted the Andhra Pradesh agricultural Indebtedness (Relief) Act, 1977, with a view to provide relief from indebtedness to agricultural labourers, rurul artisans and small farmers in the State, and for matters connected therewith. "agricultural labourer" is defined in clause (b) of Section 3 to mean" a person who does not hold any agricultural land and whose principal means of livelihood is by manual labour on agricultural land, in the capacity of a labourer on hire or on exchange, whether paid in cash or in kind or partly in cash and partly in kind". "rural artisan" is defined in clause (r) to mean "a person who does not hold any agricultural land and whose principal means of livelihood is production or repair of traditional tools, implements and other articles or things used for agriculture or purpose ancillary thereto, and includes a fisherman and any person who normally earns his livlihood by practising a craft either by his own labour or by the labour of all or any of the members of his family in rural area". The expression "small farmer" is defined in clause (t) to mean "a person whose principal means of livlihood is inco