Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2018

TRENDS IN AGRICULTURAL LABOUR IN KARNATAKA STATE

Mr. Malathesha D B. , Dr. K. B. Rangappa

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Agriculture labour has become the most important component in Indian agriculture. A little less than half of the total cost of production of field crop is of labour. Economic development of any country lead to structural changes in the occupational distribution. It meant that employment in the agricultural sector declined and it rised in the secondary and tertiary sector. In the last decade, agricultural labour growth has seen some drastic changes. The agricultural labour percentage to total percentage has decreased. It has negative slope. The present analysis on census data related to agricultural labour to national and Karnataka reveals that still agriculture sector is the major sector to provide employment. At all India, agricultural labour has been increasing which means, the secondary and tertiary sectors are failed to absorb the agricultural labourers.

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Mr. Malathesha D B., Dr. K.B.Rangappa, TRENDS IN AGRICULTURAL LABOUR IN KARNATAKA STATE, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-2 | February-2018

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