Impact of out migration of labour on agriculture production: a case study of Hansapur VDC of Gorkha district
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2014
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This study entitled" Impact of out Migration of Labor on Agriculture Production: a case study of Hansapur VDC of Gorkha District" has been carried out in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in Economics.
The study analyzed the effect on labour migration in study area. General objective of this study is to analyze the effects of out labour migration in agriculture production and specific objectives are to identify the factors influencing the decision to migrate by type and study the effect of labor out migration on household agriculture production
Most of the young age population goes in out labour migration which create problem in agriculture sector. For short time, labour outmigration have improved the livelihood of the villagers, and increase in agriculture production capacity by manage the distribution of agriculture productive land but in long time it will have negative effect in agriculture production. There is no machine to cultivate in mountain area. Human labour is only the means of cultivation. Out lbaour migration reduce the human labour which create problem in cultivation. Due to seasonal cultivation there should finish agriculture work in time. Lack of sufficient labour is difficult. So out labour migration directly effect on farming and creates some difficult on social harmony.
This study saw that, there are both negative and positive impact of outmigration of labouron agriculture production. Throughout the increase of the income level some out migrantfamily can buy the agriculture land, it will increase the agriculture production. But inother side deficiency of labour, increase the baron agriculture land and decrease the agriculture production and livestock farming.
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Agriculture production, Labour migration