Labour Absorption in Crop Cultivation in Rural Haryana

Abstract

The nature of agrarian transition — non-implementation of land reforms, public-expenditure-led
process of Green Revolution, and the recent phase of liberalisation in agriculture — that has unfolded
in India has had a profound impact on economic growth and development. India witnessed a period
of absence of structural change in terms of the shift of labour from agriculture to the industrial sector
(Abraham, 2009; Chandrasekhar and Ghosh, 1999; Ghosh, 2015; Rawal and Saha, 2015). After a phase of
public-support-led agricultural growth in the 1970s and 1980s, the period of economic reforms initiated in
the 1990s were associated with reversal of land reforms, decline in public investment in agriculture, change
from administered prices to market prices of agricultural inputs, and the constant fear of privatisation
in agriculture.