Climatic Change and Changing Structure of Labour Force in Indian Agriculture

Abstract

A number of structural, technological and climatic changes in Indian agriculture involve a large variation
in labour force distribution. The proportion of the agricultural labour force to the total labour force in
India has declined for the past two decades and migration in the agricultural labour force has increased. It
is viewed from various studies that since Indian agriculture depends mainly on climate conditions for its
irrigation, unfavourable changes in climate led lower agricultural productivity and made the poor
agriculture labour force poorer.