Question

Shankar is anilliterate landless labourer who works in the farms of a rich farmer in his village, while Deepak is a trained graduate teacher. Describe the sectors and terms of working conditions they are engaged in.

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Farming requires a great deal of hard work. Small farmers along with their families cultivate their own fields. Medium and large farmers hire farm labourers to work on their fields.

These farm labourers come either from landless families or families cultivating small plots of land, They do not have a right over the crops grown on the land. Instead they are paid wages by the farmer for whom they work. Wages can be in cash or in king e.g. crop. Whatever they get as wages is always less than the minimum wages fixed by the government i.e. Rs 60 per day.

Sometimes labourers get meals also. Wages vary widely from region to region, from crop to crop, from