Socio-Economic Condition of Agricultural Labour : A Case Study of Mahesana District in Gujarat

This paper empirically examines the socio-economic condition of agricultural labour households from four villages of Mahesana district of Northern Gujarat on the light of agricultural growth performance. It uses both primary and secondary data sources. It has found that the agricultural profile of the Mahesana has achieved success in terms of an increase in cropping and irrigation intensity, production of various crops, wages of labour, etc. The situation of landless agricultural labour households is in a good position on the performance of pertinent indicators like availability of farming operations in the village level and fixed-wage distribution, living standard, lower migration, and borrowings but other indicators like ownership and structure of the house, landholding, sanitation facilities have lacked among the large proportion of the households