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182Able-bodied men.Women migrateonly if householdeconomic situationis very bad.Contractor pays forfood until they getpaid for the workat the end <strong>of</strong> thecontract.Coping when nowork at home.Rs 65/day. Workavailability low.Manage to surviveduring the leanseason anddrought.Work alongsideteams <strong>of</strong> Vaddimigrants but onthe “lighter” jobsin plantations andfor the ForestDepartment.Migrate only duringdrought and leanmonths.VP: SC hamlet. Mala (SC) marginalfarmers.Single person fromhousehold.None. AccumulativeAverage earningis Rs. 50/day and<strong>this</strong> kind <strong>of</strong> work isavailable all yearround.Better paid thanlocal, casuallaboring.Mixed. Non-farm and farmlaboring in nearbyurban and 12nearby villages withirrigated farming.Migrate for 15–30days at a time.OP: dry, partlytank-irrigated. Neardistrict capital.Harvest sugarcanefor the sugarfactory in Bodhan(Nizambad, aneighboringdistrict), workusually fromOctober–March.Two–three adultsfrom a householdmigrate (usuallytwo males and onefemale), togetherwith children.Employer indestination (hecomes or they goin advance <strong>of</strong> themigration season).No middleman orcontractor.Accumulative now,started as copingmigration in the1970s. Migrantscan <strong>save</strong> up to Rs.3000/ month aftermeeting expensesand paying <strong>of</strong>f debt.Most families returnwith a saving <strong>of</strong> atleast Rs. 10,000 ina seasonMore wealthbut children’seducation suffers.Mudiraj (BC) and<strong>La</strong>mbada (ST).Small and marginalfarmers. Pair <strong>of</strong>bulls and cartessential.MD: remote,unirrigated Verylarge number<strong>of</strong> marginal andsubmarginalholdings. Much<strong>of</strong> the land isunproductive.

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