GEOG 1400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Multiple Cropping, Labour Power, Surplus Labour
20 Feb 2018
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Further, loss of access to land leads to the increased supply of labourers which lowers wages. The gr is said to have adverse impact on the poor as labourers as well. There are tendencies toward deceleration in employment opportunities. Increased food output due to mv-use leads to lower food prices. This means that farmers in non-mv areas get lower relative prices for their output and therefore have less incentive to employ labour. Monday, february 19, 2018: one is that the application of biochemical inputs by allowing multiple cropping in a shorter growing period sets up pressure toward mechanization to cope with the increased time constraint. That is, farmers resort to mechanization in order deal with sharp sea- sonal peaks in labour demand from main crop harvest through second crop weeding time) and the resultant bidding up of wage rates. The post- harvest operation tends to be also mechanized.
