Economic Analysis of Urbanisation Impact on Different Social Groups Located inFringes of Bengaluru Urban

摘要

The study was conducted in Ramanagara District of Karnataka state. Two categories of rural fold considered were: 1) men, women and children and 2) Agricultural labour, marginal farmers, small farmers, medium farmers, large farmers. According to farmers' perception, urbanization had negative impact (about 60% and 63 % in the case of rainfed and irrigated situation, respectively) on the men community as it created shortage of agriculture labour and also loss of interest in the farming activity. Farmersfelt that urbanization had both positive (better non-agricultural jobs, leisure, and reduction in the work load due to new technologies) and negative impact (imparts laziness) on the women community. Urbanization had positive impact (65 % and 70% in thecase of rainfed and irrigated situations) on the children as it created better school facilities in turn helping for over all development of the children. Farmers felt that urbanization had positive impact (60 % and 68 % in the case of rainfed and irrigated situations) on labour as it creates better job opportunities for them, thereby increasing their standard of leaving. Farmers perceived that urbanization has negative impact (about 55% and 63% of rainfed and irrigated farmers, respectively) on marginal farmers as there was difficulty in investing on land for commercialized farming and also fear of losing lands. Urbanization had negative impact (60% and 68% in the case of rainfed and irrigated situations, respectively) on the small farmers. Urbanisation had both positive and negative impact on medium farmers. Urbanization had negative impact (65% and 53% of the sample farmers from rainfed and irrigated situations, respectively) on large farmers as it was difficult to get the agricultural labour forwork and larger land holdings calls for larger investment, market risk and prove to theft of the produce.