A Study of Relationship Between Some Selected Independent Characteristic of The Sugarcane Harvesting Labourers and their Status of Socio-biography

Sugarcane harvesting is a heavily labour-intensive operation and thousands of labourers use to come from drought prone areas to work as sugarcane harvesting labourers for the requirements of their livelihood. In all 210 sugarcane harvesting labourers were randomly selected for the present investigation. The study concluded that the relationship between some selected independent and dependent variables showed that the variables like age, education, caste, marital status, family size, family type, land holding and occupation had statistically non-significant relationship with socio-biography. The variables viz., experience, income and nature of migration showed significant relationship with socio-biography. The respondents sugarcane harvesting labourers were consuming Bajra/Jowar Bhakari with curry of cereals/pulses, edible oils every day and weekly meat/egg/ vegetables as energy source since they have to perform the heavy and untired work. More than half (69.04 per cent) of respondents were using more than two pairs of cotton cloths, incase of Terreline majority i.e. 71.90 per cent of the respondent were using one pair. About 37.14 per cent of the sugarcane harvesting labourers were using hand pumps as their source of drinking water. All the sugarcane harvesting labourers were using as there shelter bamboo hut covered with sugarcane trash the during harvesting period at factory residence. Majority of respondents (93.33 per cent) brushed their tooth every morning followed by more than half i.e. 53.33 per cent of the respondents were washing their clothes regularly. During harvesting work at factory site, the respondents sugarcane harvesting labourers were not much worried about their health and cleanliness so they many times faced their health problem.