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title: Labour Migration in Indo-Gangetic Plains: Determinants and Impacts on Socio-economic Welfare
creator: Singh, N P
creator: Singh, R P
creator: Kumar, R
creator: Padaria , R N
creator: Singh, A
creator: Varghese, N
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
description: In 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.    
publisher: Agricultural Economics Research Association
date: 2011
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/2407/1/Agricultura_Economics_Research_Review_24_449-458_2011.pdf
identifier:   Singh, N P and Singh, R P and Kumar, R and Padaria , R N and Singh, A and Varghese, N  (2011) Labour Migration in Indo-Gangetic Plains: Determinants and Impacts on Socio-economic Welfare.  Agricultural Economics Research Review, 24.  pp. 449-458.  ISSN 0974-0279     
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