Problems and Prospects of Agricultural Labours in India

Agriculture in India plays an important role in overall socio-economic development. Therefore, fostering rapid, sustained and broad growth in agriculture remains key priority for the country. With the decreasing labour force in agriculture, increasing yield or productivity is the key to growth, which has to be accelerated. Shortage of labour and finding solutions there should become a major focus. Agriculture provides employment to not only the adult males of a households but also to women on the households. Women work extensively in production of major grains and millets, in land preparation, seed selection and seedling production, sowing, applying manure, weeding, transplanting, threshing, winnowing and harvesting. In this paper examine to find the growth and prospects of agricultural labourers in India. Agricultural labour in India faces various problems like low wages, lack of occupation, lack of Organization, lack of Holdings etc.