Rural and Agricultural Employment Conundrum

R. S. Deshpande and S. Subramanian

Review of Market Integration, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, 104-119

Abstract: The changing employment scenario is opening a few puzzles. While cultivators are declining, the number of operational holding is increasing very fast. Similarly, agricultural labourers are increasing but farmers indicate almost unanimously non-availability of farm labour. Age cohorts’ analysis indicates increasing average age of cultivators for future too. The central theme of this article is to bring forth this dual puzzle and decipher the changes. Our attempt here is to highlight three issues, namely, disappearing cultivators, increasing non-cultivating holdings and increasing farmers’ average age. Besides, even with increasing number of agricultural labourers, farmers indicate non-availability of farm hands. These posers are highlighted with the help of Census data data. JEL: J08, J18, J21

Keywords: Employment puzzle; rural employment; reducing cultivators; age cohorts for cultivators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0974929218774407

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