The impact of outmigration agricultural labour and remittances on the place of Origin: Evidence from Odisha Province of India

Abstract:
Migration is one of the processes of development. But when the people do migrate, due to some distress from the areas of origin to the place of destination, it may be auger well for that region. This is happening now in today’s world, the people are forced to migrate due to economic and social constraint. Migrant labors do make enormous contributions to the Indian economy through major sectors such as construction, textiles, small industries, brick-making, stone quarries, mines, fish and prawn processing and hospitality services. This paper objective is to study the impact of migration of labor out of agriculture to other non agricultural sector. This also examines the association between agricultural productivity (production, input, cropping pattern, land utilization) and seasonal labor out migration via remittance, migration and inequality at the place of origin. To understand their working and living conditions of left behind particularly women, children and old people. These papers also try to examine the present and future implications of large scale out-migration of agricultural laborers particularly from rural areas to urban space and to find out policy implication in the context of migration and agriculture.