TO EXAMINE THE LABOUR ABSORPTION IN CROP PRODUCTION FOR PRINCIPAL CROPS IN TRANSITIONAL PLAIN REGION OF RAJASTHAN

A.S. RAJPUT¹, L. SHARMA², G.L. MEENA³, M.K. JANGID⁴, A. YADAV⁵*
¹Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, 313001, Rajasthan, India
²Officer Incharge (CCPC), Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, 313001, Rajasthan, India
³Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, 313001, Rajasthan, India
⁴School of Agricultural Sciences, Career Point University, Kota, 324005, Rajasthan, India
⁵Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, 313001, Rajasthan, India
* Corresponding Author : anjuy6047@gmail.com

Received : 01-12-2020     Accepted : 26-12-2020     Published : 30-12-2020
Volume : 12     Issue : 24       Pages : 10475 - 10480
Int J Agr Sci 12.24 (2020):10475-10480

Keywords : Labour absorption, Region, Family labour, Crop production
Academic Editor : Maria Toader, Dr Vijay Prajapati, O. P. Bansal, Dr Vipul N Kapadia
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, 313001, Rajasthan, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The present investigation was undertaken with a view to study the labour absorption (both family and hired labour) in principal crops in transitional plain regions of Rajasthan. The primary data were collected from the 200 households of 10 villages during year of the 2018-2019. To study the labour absorption in crop production for principal crops the model suggested by Singh, 1996 was used. The labour absorption in crop production for the transitional plain region varied from 53.47 man-days per hectare (marginal farms) to 45.55 man-days per hectare (large farms) in different farm size groups. The absorption of machine labour was the highest on large farms (44.72 hours per hectare) and lowest on marginal farms (24.71 hours per hectare) indicating that machine labour replaced human labour with the increase in size of the farm

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