The Gazetteers Department

Agricultural operations in the district arc dependent on manual labour. Most of the agriculturists employ casual labourers when there is pressure of work on rhe farm. Generally these labourers are landless persons and small holders of land. Persons who are forced to seek employment outside their villages out of poverty are engaged in the agricultural operations. Such labourers are usually paid cither in cash or in kind or both in cash and in kind daily or at the end of the work. The daily wage.rales, however do not change with different types of work unless the work requires skilled services. Generally men labourers are paid more than the women labourers as men undertake heavy work whereas women attend to light work. Women are not usually employed on yearly basis. On an average men labourers are paid between Rs. two and Rs. three while women labourers are paid between Rs. 1.50 and Rs. 2 in the areas roundabout towns, factories and irrigated areas. In the non.irrigated areas, especially in the remote parts, the rates, of wages of both the labourers, men and women, are less by 50 per cent. There is another category of agricultural labourers known as saldars. These saldars, annual labourers, are usually employed by the big agriculturists. An amount varying from Rs. 150 to Rs. 300 is given to such labourers. They arc also provided with one or two dresses and daily meals.

The labour employed in the agricultural sector, however, is temporary as it's services are required during the sowing, weeding, harvesting and threshing seasons only. The casual labourers, therefore, tend to seek such fields of work where they can get work for the whole year. The business centres, the small and large.scale industries and sugar factories in the district are opening now avenues of employment which are more lucrative than casual labourers. The casual labour for agricultural operations, therefore, is becoming dear and scarce.

The following table gives the average wages of various labourers from l956-57 to 1961-62: —

TABLE No. 41.

AGRICULTURAL WAGES IN SANGLI DISTRICT FROM 1956-57 TO 1961-62.

Month	Year	Carpenters	Blacksmiths	Cobblers	Field labour	Other agricultural labour	Herdsmen
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
July	1956-57	3.16	3.20	2.50	1.12	1.8	0.94
August	Do.	3.08	3.15	2.40	1.12	1.8	0.94
September	Do.	3.08	3.15	3.35	1.17	1.8	0.81
October	Do.	3.08	3.15	2.35	2.08	1.00	0.81
November	Do.	3.12	3.10	2.45	1.16	1.04	0.90
December	Do.	3.12	3.10	2.35	1.12	1.04	0.90
January	Do.	3.04	3.05	2.35	1.08	1.00	0.90
February	Do.	3.04	2.85	2.40	1.08	1.00	0.90
March	Do.	3.12	3.00	2.50	1.04	1.00	0.92
April	Do.	3.12	3.00	2.50	1.04	1.00	0.92
May	Do.	3.12	3.00	2.50	1.04	1.00	0.92
June	Do.	3.12	3.00	2.40	1.12	100	0.90
July	I957-58	3.08	3.10	2.40	1.04	1.00	0.71
August	Do.	3.08	3.15	2.40	1.08	1.04	0.76
September.	Do.	3.08	3.15	2.40	1.00	0.96	0.71
October	Do.	3.08	3.15	2.40	1.00	0.96	0.71
November	Do.	3.08	3.15	2.00	1.00	0.96	0.71
December.	Do.	3.08	3.10	2.40	1.00	0.96	0.71
January	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.40	1.04	1.00	0.90
February	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.40	1.04	1.00	0.90
March	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.40	1.04	1.00	0.87
April	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.40	1.08	1.04	0.87
May	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.40	1.04	1.00	0.90
June	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.40	1.19	1.08	0.75

TABLE No. 41—contd.

Month	Year	Carpenters	Blacksmiths	Cobblers	Field labour	Other agricultural labour	Herdsmen
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
July	1958-59	2.91	2.38	2.50	1.19	1.12	0.76
August	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.45	1.19	1.12	0.81
September	Do.	2.91	2.85	2.50	1.19	1.12	0.71
October	Do.	2.91	2.87	2.50	1.12	1.08	0.76
November	Do.	2.91	2.81	2.50	1.19	1.12	0.76
December	Do.	2.91	2.90	2.50	1.19	1.16	0.81
January	Do.	2.91	2.90	2.50	I.19	1.16	0.81
February	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.60	1.04	1.08	0.81
March	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.60	1.08	1.08	0.84
April	Do.	2 91	3.00	2.60	1.08	1.08	0.84
May	Do.	2.91	2.90	2.49	1.12	1.16	0.76
June	Do.	2.91	2.90	2.49	1.16	1.16	0.91
July	1959-60	2.92	2.90	2.50	1.29	1.25	0.91
August	Do.	2.92	3.00	2.50	1.25	1.20	0.91
September	Do.	2.92	2.90	2.50	1.25	1.16	0.81
October	Do.	2.92	3.00	2.50	1.21	1.16	0.81
November	Do.	2.92	2.90	2.50	1.29	1.22	0 91
December	Do.	2.92	2.90	2.45	1.25	1.25	0.91
January	Do.	2.92	2.95	2.45	1.17	1.21	0.91
February	Do.	2.75	2.95	2.45	1.17	1.25	0.91
March	Do.	2.92	3.00	2.45	1.25	1.33	1.06
April	Do.	2.75	3.00	2.60	1.25	1.25	0.96
May	Do.	2.92	3.00	2.60	1.25	1.25	0.96
June	Do.	2.92	3.00	2.60	1.30	1.25	0.95
July	1960-61	2.91	2.85	2.40	1.37	1.29	0.94
August	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.40	1.57	1.29	1.00
September	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.20	1.33	1.21	0.86
October	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.40	1.25	1.21	1.00
November	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.50	1.33	1.29	1.08

TABLE No. 41—contd.

Month	Year	Carpenters	Blacksmiths	Cobblers	Field labour	Other agricultural labour	Herdsmen
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
December	1960-61	3.00	3.00	2.50	1.37	1.25	1.00
January	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.50	1.37	1.33	1.00
February	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.50	1.37	1.33	1.00
March	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.50	1.37	1.41	1.09
April	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.60	1.37	1.29	0.94
May	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.40	1.33	1.33	0.94
June	Do.	3.00	3.00	2.40	1.33	1.33	0.94
July	1961-62	2.91	3.00	2.60	1.33	1.37	1.40
August	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.60	1.33	1.37	1.50
September	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.40	1.28	1.28	1.37
October	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.60	1.20	1.29	1.37
November	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.70	1.29	1.37	1.50
December	Do.	2.91	3.00	2.75	1.29	1.37	1.50
January	Do.	2.95	3.10	2.70	1.29	1.41	1.50
February	Do.	3.00	3.30	2.40	1.33	1.42	1.60
March	Do.	3.08	3.40	2.70	1.37	1.54	1.80
April	Do.	3.08	3.40	2.80	1.41	1.45	1.50
May	Do.	3.08	3.40	2.60	1.41	1.50	2.00
June	Do.	3.08	3.40	2.30	1.41	1.50	1.70

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