Rubber Plantation Labours in Kanniyakumari District - An Economic Study

Abstract

Rubber is one of the essential roles of horticultural crops in India. It has a commercial value and it assumes impotent from the point of view in employers working condition. The specific objectives of the study are as follows (i) To study the living and working condition of the rubber plantation in Kanniyakumari district. (ii) To analyze their level of income and expenditure. (iii) To give suggestion for improving the status and working condition of rubber plantation. The required information for the present study has been collected both from Primary and Secondary data. The information has been collected from the respondents through the separate interview schedule for the rubber plantation labour. The Secondary data required for the study were collected from the various books, Rubber the various articles published in Newspapers, and Magazine. The Samples were selected by Convenience Sampling Technique. The Total number were samples were collected 90 Respondents. The study was conducted among the select rubber plantation labours in Kanniyakumari district. The interview schedule has been used for collection of primary data from the rubber plantation labours employed in the factory. The analysis was done by the use of Excel and SPSS. The various statistically tools applied to analysis the primary data were presented analysis ANOVA analysis to arrive at required from the study. For effective analysis and easy understanding, the data were tabulated.