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Labour Migration in Indo-Gangetic Plains: Determinants and Impacts on Socio-economic Welfare
Get PDFIn India, male out-migration from rural to urban areas has increased in recent years, especially in the Indo- Gangetic regions of the country. This indicates that most of the developed regions of India are utilizing labour force of backward areas. The paper has investigated on labour out-migration from the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to find its determinants and its impacts on farm economy. The analysis of determinants shown that the number of members in a family and their educational status have a positive impact on migration. As a result of male out-migration, the women left behind in the villages assume a major role in various farm activities resulting in the so-called ‘feminization of agriculture’. It has also empowered the female members of the migrant households in terms of enhancing their decision-making role in various activities. The study has observed some policy implications in terms of formation of self-help groups or labour societies to help out-migrants, organization of training programmes for capacity building of women, more thrust on education a girl-child and development of infrastructure in the rural areas.Labour migration, Feminization of agriculture, Farm-women empowerment, Impact on farm socio-economy, Agricultural and Food Policy, J61, J23, J31,
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Full text linkNot AvailableAgriculture is still the mainstay of livelihood for millions of farmers in India. However, farmers are getting disenchantment with the agriculture due to climatic and production risks and more importantly due to the poor returns and high cost of cultivation. As entrepreneurship has assumed greater significance in economic development across the world, it is essential to set an entrepreneurial culture in farming and the farmers need to be motivated to shift from subsistence cultivation to commercial cultivation.
Various agripreneurs in the country have proved that agriculture can be economically viable if various agricultural enterprises are followed up with post-harvest processing, value addition and marketing. However, favorable attitudinal orientation is an important prerequisite before taking up agripreneurial venture. Hence, understanding agripreneurial attitude has been a subject of interest for many researchers
as agripreneurs exhibit varied types of characteristics that constitute agripreneurial attitude. The study was conducted in selected villages of National Capital Region of Delhi. Total 110 farmers, consisting of eighty agripreneurs selected purposively based on predetermined criteria (e.g. self-starter of agribusiness, extent of commercialization, recognition and awards secured, adoption of innovation in production system),
and 30 non-agripreneurs selected randomly comprised the sample size of the study. The agripreneurial attitude was measured using the modified version of the entrepreneurial attitude scale of Robinson et al. (1991). About 53 and 22% of agri-preneurs were found to possess high and very high level of agripreneurial attitude respectively. Mann Whitney U-test revealed that agripreneurs and non-agripreneurs differed highly significantly (P<0.01) with respect to all the four variables namely achievement motivation, innovativeness, personal control and self-esteem.Not Availabl
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Full text linkNot AvailableAccess to information is of crucial importance in the present agricultural scenario. The present study was conducted at Akola district of Maharashtra to analyse the information need and information search behavior of cotton farmers. Department of Agriculture, followed by friends and neighbours, input dealers and other progressive farmers were the major sources of information contacted by most of the farmers. Contact frequency of farmers was found to be varying widely with farmers with lower number of information sources found to be relying more on input dealers, radio, television and newspapers. Major information needs of farmers were found to be related to pest management, seeds of new varieties, seed treatment, water management and soil fertility.Not Availabl
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Full text linkNot AvailableA study was conducted in the important cotton growing districts Ganganagar and Hanumangarh of
Rajasthan for economic viability of Bt. cotton and non Bt. cotton varieties. A total of 160 farmers comprising
80 Bt. cotton and 80 non-Bt. cotton farmers drawn randomly from 8 villages in the two districts were
included in the study. The results indicated that the number of pesticide sprays has reduced with introduction
of Bt. cotton. Cost on pesticide in case of non-Bt. cotton accounted for about 30 per cent of total cost as
against 7 per cent in case of Bt. cotton. Bt. cotton farmers earned a larger profit Rs. 35372.48 / ha as
compared to non-Bt. cotton farmers Rs. 13398/ha. Highly significant inverse relation of plant protection
with profit showed by the chow test suggests over use of pesticides by farmers. In conventional cotton
verities, plant protection management appropriated around one-third of total cost of cultivation. Reduction
in usage of pesticide and thereby reducing the cost of cultivation has been the avowed target of deployment
of Bt. Cotton. Adopters of Bt. cotton earned an additional income of Rs 21,974 per ha. The higher Benefit
Cost Ratio (2.6:1) for Bt. cotton in comparison to non-Bt. cotton (1.6:1) amply showed that Bt. cotton
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Full text linkNot AvailableThe study was taken up to compare the content broadcasted and good management practices followed in three community radio stations (CRS) operational under state agricultural university (SAU), Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and non-government organization (NGO). A sum of 120 listeners and 30 staff members were interviewed. Some of the good management practices of SAU-CRS recorded were: more number of village volunteers, versatile content creation, connecting with sponsoring agencies, knowledge back
up by scientists. KVK-CRS practiced a messaging service to give alert to the listeners about important programmes. NGO-CRS maintained 12 members’ content management committee, which comprised rural women and innovative farmers. It has also installed wind mill to generate electricity during power cut. Major programmes aired from the community radios were listed across broadcast timings subjects covered, duration, frequency per week, format of presentation and resource person.Not Availabl
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Full text linkNot AvailableThe community radio has made an impression in all grounds of rural society in which there was a need to
assess socio-technological empowerment of rural households. The study was taken up to compare the status
of community members’ participation in community radios, operational under three different hosting agencies
i.e. State Agricultural University (SAU), Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and Non-Government Organization
(NGO). The community radio stations namely Pantnagar Janvani (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and
Technology), Pravara (KVK, Ahmednagar) and Yeralavani (Yerala Projects Society, Sangli) were selected
purposively. Four villages have been selected randomly from one purposively selected block. Forty (40)
respondents from four randomly selected villages from each CRS coverage area/ broadcast range along with
10 staff members of each CRS were selected for the study. Thus, a total of 150 respondents constituted the
sample for the study. About 43 per cent of respondents had low level of participation in programme production
and broadcasting followed by moderate level (40 %) and high level (17.50 %). Education and perception
about CRS programmes were significantly influencing extent of participation of respondents.Not Availabl
