Why do small farmers and labourers prefer wages in cash rather than in kind?
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Agricultural workers constitute the most deprived class in the rural economy of any underdeveloped country like India. Their income is low and employment is irregular. Government arranges very little social security for this class. As these agricultural labourers do not possess any other skill, they have little employment opportunities in any other sector. It is very difficult to define an agricultural labourer. One can say that the worker, who works in the field during the time of cultivation, can be treated as an agricultural labourer. However, many small and marginal farmers also work in the farms of others as an agricultural labourer to supplement their income. In this paper, we shall consider the main agricultural labourers who earn major part of their income, through working in the farm sector. During the time of survey, our target group is the local agricultural labourers. These local labourers are defined as those labourers who are staying in a particular village for more than five years and working in the farm sector only in his native village in the last few years. The labourers considered here, as samples are mainly male adult labourers who are more than eighteen years old. In order to get details picture about the wage and employment pattern of the labourers in the agricultural labour market of West Bengal, we have also collected information about the wage and employment pattern of the female agricultural labourers and of male or female migrant agricultural labourers.
These days not many people take kinds like food.....they take cash because they can save it up to later to buy anything.
But in the case of kind, for example a labourer gets a small bag of rice for working on the field for a day.
But sometimes he may get very less rice, which is not even enough for him.
But when he has money he can save his income everyday and buy a sack of rice, enough for his family.
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