A DETAILED STUDY ON THE FARMING SYSTEMS AND ITS EFFECT ON MIGRATION AT BAJNA BLOCK OF RATLAM DISTRICT IN MADHYA PRADESH

Agriculture and Rural Development

The farming system is an integrated set of activities that farmers perform on their farm under the available resources and in favourable circumstances to generate productivity and profitability. It is a complex interrelated matrix of soil, animal, labour, capital and other inputs that are controlled by farm families and influenced by the social, political, economic and environmental forces. When people cannot fulfill their needs through farming they do not have any other choice other than migration. Farming and the migration are two parallel dimensions of livelihood in the location. Both are equally important for the people. This study was conducted in Bajna block of Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh of India. For the collection of data community leaders, youths and women were contacted through phone calls. Total of 60 samples was taken for this study. Previously available contacts were used to gather more contact numbers through the snowball sampling. Later from the contacts list by using simple random sampling 60 samples were randomly chosen. This paper includes a brief three dimensions viz. agriculture animal husbandry and migration in the location. In the case of agriculture main crops (wheat, maize, cotton and soybean) cultivation and economics is briefly described, in the animal husbandry main enterprises (dairy, Poultry and goat rearing) and their economics is briefly described. In the migration dimension, several parameters are covered like wage, gender dynamics, places of migration causes, economics etc. Further in the paper to understand the farming system and its relationship with migration fifty one different livelihood systems are studies and a brief benefit-cost ratio is presented in the paper. Later on, based on the findings of these fifty-one livelihood systems recommendations are made for the betterment of the people in the location.

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