Casual farm labour shrinks by 40% since 2011-12, total job loss nearly 3 crore: NSSO data shows

The share of rural households with major income from casual labour in agriculture decreased by 10 percentage points since 2011-12. That works out to a drop of 15 million families (from 36 million to 21 million) dependent on casual farm work.

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