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SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF MIGRANT PLANTATION

LABOURERS: A STUDY OF SELECTED PLANTATIONS IN
KARNATAKA

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1. Introduction

Plantation industries are large scale includes high investment employing

wage worker that impacts on profit. Plantation believes special important on
source of foreign exchange due to its involvement to the employment of
millions of plantation workers. Women are largely engaging in plantation
work, it is well known that plantation economy has its own unique economic
configuration and is historically connected with bondage and oppression. The
labour system associated with migrant nature along with social distributions
and the distant locations of the plantations have made plantations labour to
exclude from social and economic exclusion. It is well known that plantation
sector is exposed to severe crisis due to erosion of international
competitiveness. The position of farming division in the Indian economy is fine
understood. Though, despite huge investments and a large amount vaunted
technical progress, agricultural division has observed additional or less stable
growth tempo over most of the previous five decades. Significant concern has
been spoken over signs of deceleration in this part during the previous decade.
As such it has been correctly sharp out that critical assessment of past growth
practice and the factors underlying the determinedly slow increase is, therefore,
significant for enhanced appreciation of the constraints impeding agricultural
development, which is necessary to redesign prospect programmes and policies
(Vaidyanathan, 2010).

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