The labour shortages which face the Australian agricultural sector could be described as having both acute and chronic aspects. Acute labour shortages can be related to short-term factors; examples include the impacts of extended drought and strong growth within the mining sector which has led...

This study has been conducted in the backward district of Perambalur, which is a less resource-endowed district of Tamil Nadu, with the following objectives: (i) to identify the major causes and empirically determine the key correlates of agricultural labour migration in the study area, and (ii)...

This study conducted in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, has indentified the problems being faced by dairy farmers due to scarcity of farm labour for agricultural and livestock production. The study is based on the data collected from 40 selected respondents involved in crop production and...