Agricultural labor migration in Raichur and Yadgir districts of Karnataka: Nature, trend and determinants

The present paper intends to examine the nature, trend and determinants of agricultural labor migration in Raichur and Yadgir districts of Karnataka. The results revealed that the majority of population were inter district migrants with the highest decadal growth rate of 68.53%. And it has also used latest census 2011data and made compared with previous census report of 2001, revealed that highest per cent of migration was in rural as compared to urban area. The most of the labourers in irrigated situation migrated near village and within the district but in rainfed situation, labor migration to other districts was relatively high. In both the situation majority of labourers migrated permentally and the frequency was highest (62.5%) in rainfed situation. The elasticity coefficients for wage rate, land holding, family size and indebtedness were significantly influencing the migration in the study area.