Migratory Farming Youth Return for Farming: New Rural reality in Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh

Luring of rural farming youth to non-farm sector for the search of jobs is becoming a common phenomenon of rural India. On this background a study was purposively conducted during 2018 in Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh to find out the reality of migratory and reverse migratory farming youth. A total 50 migratory and 50 reverse migratory farming youth (RMFY) belong to small and marginal land holdings were purposively selected as respondents for interview. Results revealed that mostly unmarried (below 18 year) farming youth performed laboury (96%) with high economic motivation (68%), while RMFY (married-82%) were under the age group >18–25 year (70%) and adopted agricultural enterprises with high (70%) economic motivation. RMFY were accept that hazardous nature of jobs with very hard work and poor fooding-lodging and unhygienic condition at working place were the main reasons of leaving non farm sector job. Comparative study between migratory and RMFY showed that migratory youth earn less as compare to reverse migratory, who earn more. RMFY expectation was more regarding satisfactory income from farming as enterprises at home.