Livelihood Pattern Of Farm Labourers From Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri
Loading...
Date
2011
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
MPKV, UNIVERSITY LIBRARY RAHURI
Abstract
Agriculture in India is vertical backbone of the country
and is regarded as the largest sector of the state economy in which
the majority of people earn their livelihood. The Government of
India decided to establish an organization State Agricultural
University (SAUs) on land grand pattern with three fold functions
viz. Teaching, Research, and Extension Education. At present
there are 42 State Agriculture Universities in India. Out of them
four are in Maharashtra State.
The farm labourers are at the base level, professionally
unqualified employees in Agricultural University, who shoulder the
major responsibility of successfully carrying out the field work.
Hence to understand the livelihood pattern of the respondent
farm labourers the present study entitled Livelihood Pattern of
Farm Labourers from Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri
was undertaken to study the personal, social communication and
psychological characteristics of the respondent farm labourers, to
study the working pattern, livelihood pattern of the respondent
farm labourers, to assess the relationship of selected
characteristics of the respondents with their livelihood pattern to
identify the problems of the respondent farm labourers and
suggestions made by them working in the Mahatma Phule Krishi
Vidyapeeth, Rahuri.
The study was conducted in purposively selected Pune,
Dhule, Kolhapur and Rahuri region of Mahatma Phule Krishi
Vidyapeeth, Rahuri. Total 222 farm labourers were selected on
proportional random sampling method and the data were collected
by personal interview method. For this purpose a special interview
schedule was developed according to the objectives of the study.
It was observed that a majority of the respondents (59.00 per
cent) belonged to old age group category of more than 52 years.
Furthermore, it was observed that 37.38 percent of the
respondents were illiterate and had small family size (71.62 per
cent) up to 5 members. As regards to family type a majority of the
respondents (92.80 per cent) had nuclear family and 99.55 per
cent of them had having very low level of social participation.
Further, 47.29 per cent of the respondents had medium level of
cosmopolitness. As regards to annual income of the respondent
farm labourers 70.27 per cent of the respondents had annual
income up to 2,37,970 and 40.54 per cent had medium level
source of information, while 42.80 per cent of the respondents had
moderate level of knowledge.
favorable attitude about timing to attend the office in the morning
at 9.00 AM, a majority (93.24 per cent) of the respondents
reported that they have medium work load, while (80.18 per cent)
of the respondents are unskilled labourers and only 6.75 per cent
are skilled labourers, while 40.54 per cent of the respondents
expressed that they had facility of tea break. Only 20.27 per cent
of the respondents said that University had provided them
working equipments, about half (49.54 per cent) of the
respondents doing the work of spraying of insecticide and
pesticides on the crop, and only 2.25 per cent of the respondents
had provided safety guards during spraying operations.
Furthermore, one-third (35.13 per cent) of the respondents doing
duty of night-watchmen and 14.41 per cent of the respondents
said that the dispute / robbery was happen during duty time.
A majority (86.93 per cent) of the respondents are residing
adjacent to working place with primary and secondary education
facilities of their children, while 91.00 per cent of the respondents
getting pure drinking water to their quarters. Followed by 73.00
per cent respondents are living at walking distance from Provision
stores, Stationary stores, Weekly Bazaar, etc. to purchase house
hold commodities. A majority (84.00 per cent) of the respondents
said that, the university constructed the hospitals in the campus
for the medical treatment, however only 42.34 per cent of the
respondents said that the well train Doctors along with subordinate
staff is available in that hospitals. A majority of
the
Abstract contd…. B.B. Bhingarde
respondents (86.48 per cent) had positive approach towards
education but nearly one-fourth (24.32 per cent) of the
respondents were sending their children on labour work instead of
educating them. Furthermore, it was observed that 41.90 per cent
of the respondents were able to send their children for higher
education like Medical, Engineering etc. A majority of the
respondents (94.14 per cent) family environment is favorable for
doing service. Furthermore, 89.18 per cent of the respondents are
satisfied with their university service. It was also observed that
very few (8.10 per cent) of the respondents thought that there was
malpractice in assigning the fieldwork, and 93.69 per cent of the
respondents thought that there was good co-ordination of all the
officers working in the same unit. Nearly half (48.64 per cent) of
the respondents were consume grain, pulses, vegetable daily and
occasionally fruits & milk. Furthermore, it was observed that very
negligible (4.50 per cent) respondents were consume grain, pulses,
vegetable milk, fruits daily and occasionally non vegetarian. 51.11
per cent and 25.67 per cent of the respondents were using cotton
cloths and terriline/polyester cloths respectively. Furthermore, it
was also observed that nearly half (46.84 per cent) of the
respondents had four pairs of cloths, followed by 30.18 per cent of
the respondents had more than four pairs of the cloths excluding
the dress provided by the university for them. All (100 per cent)
respondents aspired for respect in society, followed by 93.69 per
cent of the respondents aspired well equipped luxurious house
after retirement. It was also observed that 91.89 per cent of the
was
Abstract contd…. B.B. Bhingarde
observed that the incentives provided by the university in the form
of leave facility, all type of leaves provided to the farm labourers
(100 per cent), furthermore, it was observed that cent per cent of
the respondents getting two pairs of uniform per year and Diwali
festival advance facility from the university.
It was concluded that the independent variables viz. Age,
Education, Family type, Social participation and Sources of
information of the respondents exhibited non-significant
relationship with their livelihood pattern. Whereas, family size,
cosmopolitness, annual income and knowledge level exhibited
significant relationship with their livelihood pattern.
The major problems reported by the respondents were
unavailability of safety guards during the work, only two pairs of
uniform per year provided by university to them are not sufficient,
no any provision of promotion on qualification basis, lack of
provision for weekly bazaar holiday, difficult and time consuming
procedure for getting medical bill, there is inadequate drinkable
water facility on the work place and office time is not suitable as
per season.
The major suggestions given by the respondents were that
the safety guards should be provided during the work. There
should be a provision of minimum four pairs of uniform per year,
provision to be made for promotion in service on the basis of
qualification, medical bill should be included in salary statement,
provide half day holiday for weekly bazaar, provide pure drinkable
water on the work place throughout the year and change in office
time as per the season wise.
Description
Keywords
null