Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Shalini Dhavle

Abstract

For the determination of the general wage level of a rural area it is necessary to obtain information regarding the extent of hired labour units employed on farms, the prevailing wage rates for various farm operations, the proportion of population employed in agricultural and non-agricultural sector, the cropping pattern in the area, etc. This paper makes an attempt to examine the first two components namely the extent of hired labour units and the prevailing wage rates in rural areas in eleven different districts of Maharashtra during the period 1955 to 1959. The data collected through village surveys conducted by the Agro-Economic Section of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics are used for the purpose of this analysis.

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Shalini Dhavle

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For collection of date on farm Incomes and expenditure in most of: the farm business or village surveys in India, the selected families are visited more than on<^ during the reference year. It is often felt that by increasing the number of visits and by spreading out the period of investigation one can expect better reporting than when; the investigation is carried out only once at the end of the agricultural year.

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