International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Rahul Prasad R, Krishnamurthy AT, Mallikarjuna HB, Raghuprasad KP and Shailesh

abstract
The study entitled ‘Migration behaviour of labourers in Coffee plantations’ was conducted in two major Coffee-growing districts of Karnataka state, namely, Chikkamagaluru and Kodagu. To ascertain the migration behaviour of immigrants, Coffee producing zones within the districts were selected. Irrespective of the position of zones in terms of area under Coffee, ten migrant labourers were selected randomly from the villages having the highest area under Coffee in each of the zones. Thus, 140 migrant labourers were selected from 14 villages having the highest area under Coffee from 14 zones. The pre-tested interview schedule was used to collect the primary data. The results indicated that more than four-fifth (86.43%) of the migrant labourers belonged to the young age group, with regard to education more than half (52.14%) of them studied up to middle school education and half (53.57%) of them had nuclear families. Majority (82.86%) of the migrant labourers fall under the marginal farmer category, exactly half (50.00%) of them had a low level of income correspondingly more than half (57.14%) of the migrant labourers had medium to a high level of debt. It is evident that more than half (53.58%) of the migrant labourers had a high to very high level of migration, while 46.42 per cent of labourers had very low to low levels of migration. It is clear that majority (77.14%) of labourers are found to be migrated to Coffee plantations from different states, viz., Assam, West Bengal and Kerala.