Year: 2024 | Month: Sept & Dec | Volume 11 | Issue 3&4
Incidence of Poverty and Current Living Conditions of Agricultural Laboures in Punjab
Gurlal Singh and V.K. Sharma
DOI:10.30954/2394-8159.02.2024.2
Abstract :
The study has been designed to investigate the socio-economic conditions of agricultural labourers in Punjab.
The primary data was collected from 270 agricultural labourers in three different agro-climatic zones of state. The share of agricultural workforce declined from 55.25 per cent in 1991 to 30 per cent during the period, 2011. The compound annual growth rate showed that there was decline in casual agricultural labour to the tune of 4.06- man days per hectare annually since 1990. The income of agricultural labour household was observed as ` 10616 per month and consumption expenditure of farm laboures was recorded as ` 11494 per month. On an average the liabilities of agricultural labourers as debt were ` 57143 and average value of owned household assets was ` 225701. The poverty head count ratio was recorded as 8.89 per cent. The current condition of farm households was very deprived reason being decline in demand which leads to decrease in income. The farm labour employment was declined as 18.17 hours per hectare during 2008-09 to 2015-16. The agriculture laboures household of the state facing the problem of illiteracy, healthcare, debt burden, use of drugs, less availability of farm work, and deprived economic condition.
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