season and crop report tamilnadu 2009-10

8. AGRICULTURAL WAGES
Classification of Agricultural Labourers :
Statistics regarding daily wages paid
to Agricultural Labourers are being collected
every month from 385 villages, @ one Village
per Block. The Agricultural Labourers are
classified into two groups, viz.,
1. Field Labourers and
2. Other Agricultural Labourers
Field Labourers comprise of
Ploughmen, Sowers, Pluckers, Transplanters,
Weeders, Reapers and Harvesters. Other
Agricultural Labourers denote Labourers
engaged in watering fields, carrying loads,
digging wells and other Agricultural related
works.
Index Number of Agricultural Wages
Index number of agricultural wages
are very essential for assessing the trend in
cost of cultivation. The Index Numbers for the
wages of different categories of Labours are
2009-10 are given in Table VI-A. Index
Number of wages paid to certain categories of
Agricultural Labourers in Tamil Nadu for the
year 2009-10 are furnished in Table VI-B.
The indices of wages of 2009-10 paid
to all categories have increased when
compared to the previous year (i.e) 2008-09.
The index of wages paid to
ploughmen which was 542 points in July 2009
(with base year 1993-94) has increased to 595
points in June 2010.
The Index of wages for men labourers
engaged in Transplanting and weeding has
increased from 469 points to 556 points and
for women labourers it has increased from 427
points to 502 points at the beginning of the
year.
The index of wages for men and
women working in Reaping and Harvesting
was highest in the month of February 2010.
being worked out on the basis of the wages
prevailing at the selected villages of the state
with the base year 1993-94. District-wise
details of average rates of daily wages paid to
certain categories of Agricultural Labourers for
9 . WHOLESALE PRICE TREND
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