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Problems and Challenges of Agricultural Workers in Uttar Pradesh
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Abstract
State of Uttar Pradesh has a large population dependent on the agriculture sector for their live hood. In the state agriculture sector, large population of agricultural workers (Landless and small-marginal formers) - target group of study-besides working as laborers in the agricultural fields of (big) formers, does forming as the former for improving their household income. This large population being dependent on agriculture in trapped in poverty. These farming communities (Landless and small farmers) had not adequately benefitted from agriculture sector and its dependents were facing several problems and challenges. In this situation with aims of reducing poverty by following the Economic reforms undertaken by the Government of India, the state of Uttar Pradesh had also undertaken the economic reforms. However continued policy negligence, could not improve the developmnet of the agriculture sector. In this situation. The state Government had also formulated the Agriculture Policy 2005 with vision to Ensure the food and nutritional security bring about qualitative improvement by ensuring economic and prosperity. In this backup it was expected that the problems and challenges, faced by the agricultural workers in agriculture sector in the state. For bringing out the clear picture of the socio-economic status of the agricultural workers of the Uttar Pradesh.
Keywords
Agricultural Workers, Uttar Pradesh, Income, Food grains, Production.
References
[1] PHD chamber of commerce and industry, 2011. Uttar Pradesh: The State Profile, New Delhi.
[2] Govt. of Uttar Pradesh - 2012 Statistic of Uttar Pradesh 2012, Lucknow Economic and Statistics Division.
[3] Government of India, 2000 National Agriculture Policy 2000, New Delhi, Ministry of Agriculture.
[4] Govt. of Uttar Pradesh 2008, Uttar Pradesh Human Development Report Lucknow, State Planning Commission.
[5] Singh, M, 2014 Poverty and Employment in Uttar Pradesh, Intern, J. Mang & Soc. Sci. Res. Rev. 1 (5).
[6] Govt. of Uttar Pradesh 2010 planning Atlas 2010, Lucknow, State Planning Commission.
[7] Agricultural Statistics at a Glance (2015), New Delhi, Ministry of Agriculture and Formers Welfare.
[8] All India Report on Agriculture census 2010-11.
[9] World Development Report Agriculture for Development (2008). Washington, DC: The World Bank.
[10] 2007 "Uttar Pradesh Development Report 2007", State Planning Division, Planning Commission, Government of India.
How to cite this paper
@article{1701303,
author = {Dr. Suneet Kumar Singh},
title = {Problems and Challenges of Agricultural Workers in Uttar Pradesh},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2019},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
pages = {419-421},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1701303.pdf},
abstract = {State of Uttar Pradesh has a large population dependent on the agriculture sector for their live hood. In the state agriculture sector, large population of agricultural workers (Landless and small-marginal formers) - target group of study-besides working as laborers in the agricultural fields of (big) formers, does forming as the former for improving their household income. This large population being dependent on agriculture in trapped in poverty. These farming communities (Landless and small farmers) had not adequately benefitted from agriculture sector and its dependents were facing several problems and challenges. In this situation with aims of reducing poverty by following the Economic reforms undertaken by the Government of India, the state of Uttar Pradesh had also undertaken the economic reforms. However continued policy negligence, could not improve the developmnet of the agriculture sector. In this situation. The state Government had also formulated the Agriculture Policy 2005 with vision to Ensure the food and nutritional security bring about qualitative improvement by ensuring economic and prosperity. In this backup it was expected that the problems and challenges, faced by the agricultural workers in agriculture sector in the state. For bringing out the clear picture of the socio-economic status of the agricultural workers of the Uttar Pradesh.},
keywords = {Agricultural Workers, Uttar Pradesh, Income, Food grains, Production.},
month = {July},
}