Livelihood Security of Agricultural Labourers in Andhra Pradesh, India
I. Venkata Reddy *
Department of Agricultural Extension, Agricultural College, Bapatla, India.
T. Gopi Krishna
O/o Director of Extension, India.
P. V. Sathya Gopal
Department of Agri-Business Management, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, India.
Y. Radha
A. N. G. R. Agricultural University, Lam, Guntur, India.
V. Srinivasa Rao
Department of Statistics & Computer Applications, Agricultural College, Bapatla - 522 101, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The present study was conducted in Andhra Pradesh state during the year 2018-20 with an objective to study the livelihood security of agricultural labourers in Andhra Pradesh. An Ex-post facto research design followed for the study. Three districts from the three regions of Andhra Pradesh, Srikakulam from North Coastal, Guntur from South Coastal and Kurnool from Rayalaseema region of the Andhra Pradesh state were purposively selected based on the highest number of agricultural labourers. Two mandals from each region were selected by using simple random sampling. From each of the selected mandal, four villages selected by using simple random sampling procedure coming to a total of 24 villages. From each of the selected village, ten respondents were selected by using simple random sampling procedure thus coming at total of 240 respondents. The results indicated that majority of agricultural labourers in Andhra Pradesh had medium asset security (52.50%), food and nutritional security (41.25%), educational security (62.92%), habitat security (48.34%), social security (63.75%), clothing security (67.50%), (71.66%) health security (67.50%), transport security (60.00%) and information security (64.16%).The Overall Livelihood Security Index of agricultural labourers in Andhra Pradesh was medium (62.92).
Keywords: Overall livelihood security index, simple random sampling and ex-post facto research design.