Abstract
The present study intended to investigate the performance of agricultural labour market in Jaipur district of Rajasthan. A cluster of three villages (Jaitpura, Kanpura and Khushalpura) from Chomu tehsil of Jaipur district was randomly selected for the study. The sixty respondents were selected on a random basis from the particular cluster of villages. The pre-tested schedules were used for collection of primary data from the selected agricultural labour households during 2010-11. The collected data were processed and analyzed by using various statistical and mathematical tools. The frequency of labour credit interlocking was much more prominent as compared to labour-land interlocking except in one village (Khushalpura), more than half of the labour had borrowed money from their employers. There was no definite rate of interest on the loaned money from the employers. However, the employers recovered very high unspoken rate of interest in terms of a number of little owing jobs. The labour-land interlocking was, however, yet another form of wage labour since all the inputs were being provided by the landowners. It was varied in between 14-18 percent. However, the average wage/day earned in this system was higher (Rs. 175-190) than the average wage rate in the casual labour system. Family size, family income, socioeconomic status of the family and age had a significant effect on the probability of an agricultural labour household entering into interlocked arrangements.
Highlights
The unequal distribution of land holding is one of the distinguishing factors in poor socio-economic culture in agriculture
Incidence of Interlocking Among Casual Agricultural Labour Households The percent of households involved in labour-credit and labour-land interlocking was very high in all selected villages (Table 1)
The frequency of labour credit interlocking was more prominent in comparison to labour land-interlocking except in one village, more than half of the labour had borrowed money from their employers
Summary
The unequal distribution of land holding is one of the distinguishing factors in poor socio-economic culture in agriculture. This disproportion distribution land holding encourages the lease of the land to make optimum utilization of land resources. Those who have spare land either lease it or hire in labour to make optimum utilization of land resources Those who do not have sufficient land, either lease-in land or hire out the labour services to earn livelihood. This circumstance promotes labour markets in agriculture, this functioning of two markets labour may be complementary, which function independent and simultaneously.[1]. The factors like ownership of land, family size, dependency ratio, non-farm source of income farm assets including livestock, age, literacy, etc. affect the probability of an agricultural labour household entering into interlocked arrangements.[8]
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