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Subject: Agricultural Extension Education × End date: 2021 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Migration Behaviour of Rural Youth in Haryana: A Critical Evaluation
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09) Maurya, Abhilash Singh; Malik, Joginder Singh
    The study was conducted in Hisar and Bhiwani districts of Haryana. Two blocks were selected from each district. Sixteen revenue villages at the rate of four from each block were selected. Six fully migrated and six partially migrated rural youth were purposively identified from each of the selected revenue villages. In addition, six non migrant rural youth and six farm households from each revenue villages were also selected. Thus, total of 384 respondents were considered for the study. The significant findings are given here under. More than two-fifth (44.27%) of the rural youth were found to be in the age category of 21-25 years. All the respondents had education ranging from middle to college level. Among the fully migrated rural youth, 64.58 per cent of the respondents were wage earners. Among the partially migrated ones, more than three-fifth (61.45%) were engaged in agriculture on seasonal basis. Nearly half (45.00%) of the respondents possessed small size farm holdings. Majority (87.50%) of the respondents possessed farm skills and almost two-third (68.230%) of them possessed non-farm skills. Approximately 57.00 per cent of the respondents had prior migration experience. More than 77.00 per cent of the respondents possessed moderate to high level of economic motivation. Nearly four-fifth (79.69) per cent of the respondents were belonged to medium to high levels of achievement motivation. The fully migrated rural youth possessed a fairly moderate risk orientation than their counterparts. Almost two- third (63.02%) of the respondents were found to be highly self-reliant. Nearly three-fourth of the rural youth having a less to moderately favourable attitude towards agriculture. Income expectancy, comfort expectancy, stimulation expectancy and affiliation expectancy had shown positive significant contribution with attitude of rural youth towards agriculture at one per cent level of probability. Age, Educational status, farm size, non-farm skills, proximity to town, prior migration experience, economic motivation, risk orientation, self-confidence and self-reliance had shown positive significant contribution with the migration behavior at one per cent level of probability. Lacks of remunerative prices for farm produce (97.39%), lack of finance (81.77%) were the major constraints perceived to be active in agriculture by the respondents. Training on entrepreneurial skill development (84.59%), training on effective farm management (82.29%) were the most preferred empowerment needs on technological domain. Creation of credit and loan scheme for youth in agriculture (94.27%), formation of farm youth self-help groups (91.15%) were the most required social empowerment needs.