A STUDY ON EXISTING MIGRATION PATTERN OF FARM FAMILIES IN RAICHUR DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
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2015-06-30
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, RAICHUR
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The present research study was conducted in Raichur district of Karnataka during
the year 2014-15. The Raichur district was purposively selected because of convenience
and familiarity of the researcher with the study area. Based on the criteria of highest area
under dry land condition, Raichur, Lingasugur and Manvi taluks were selected, from each
taluk 2 villages were selected based on highest number of small and marginal farmers,
intern from each village 20 migrant respondents were selected which constituted 10 small
farmers and 10 marginal farmers on random basis, thus the total sample constitute 120
respondents which consist of equal number of small and marginal farmers for the study.
The study revealed that, more than half of the small farmers (68.33%) and marginal
farmers (63.33%) were inter-district migrants. And large majority (90.00%) of the
marginal farmers and majority (78.33%) of the small farmers migrated from rural to
urban areas.
With respect to factors of migration, large majority (97.50%) of the farmers migrated due
to poor economic condition of the family followed by unemployment (95.80%) and
agriculture offseason (95.80%). And large majority (96.60%) of the farmers purpose of
migration was to get regular income, followed by in search of employment (95.83%), due
to wage differentials (94.80%), to get better amenities (90.00%) and to obtain better
standard of living (90.80%).
With respect to personal, socio economic profile, around 40.00 per cent of the farmers
belonged to middle age group followed by 38.30 per cent of the farmers in young age
group. Half (50.00%) of the migrants were illiterate followed by 25.00 per cent of the
migrants completed primary school. More than half (59.10%) and 28.10 per cent of the
migrants had medium and low farming experience, respectively. Majority (72.50%)
migrants belonged to large family size. More than half (69.10%) of the migrants were
male and 30.80 per cent were female. Nearly one third (39.10%) of the farmers had
medium annual income followed by 34.10 per cent of the farmers belonged to high
income group. And more than half (52.50%) and 20.00 per cent of the farmers belonged
to high and low risk orientation category.
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