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creators_name: Singh, N P
creators_name: Singh, R P
creators_name: Kumar, R
creators_name: Padaria , R N
creators_name: Singh, A
creators_name: Varghese, N
icrisatcreators_name: Singh, N P
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: IARI(New Delhi)
affiliation: NAARM(Hyderabad)
affiliation: IGNOU(New Delhi)
country: India
title: Labour Migration in Indo-Gangetic Plains: Determinants and Impacts on Socio-economic Welfare
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
full_text_status: restricted
monograph_type: research_report
keywords: Labour migration, Feminization of agriculture, Farm-women empowerment, Impact on farm socio-economy.
note: The authors thank ICAR AP Cess Fund for
sponsoring this collaborative research at the Division
of Agricultural Economics, Indian Agricultural Research
Institute, New Delhi
abstract: 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.


date: 2011
date_type: published
publication: Agricultural Economics Research Review
volume: 24
publisher: Agricultural Economics Research Association
pagerange: 449-458
pages: 38
id_number: Conference Number
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0974-0279
official_url: http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:aerr&volume=24&issue=conf&article=011
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funders: Indian Council of Agricultural Research 
citation:   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     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/2407/1/Agricultura_Economics_Research_Review_24_449-458_2011.pdf