6.
Work participation rate 35.09 29.48 30.12 30.30 31.64
Paddy cultivation is the main economic activity for nearly one-third of the 156 employed persons from the sample households while nearly two percent of them are paddy cum fish farmers. It is also found than 30 persons (19.23 percent) from the farmer households are regular salaried employees and two-thirds of them are working in private establishments. Another 16.67 percent of the employed persons are paddy farm labourers.
Compared to other categories, the proportion of agricultural labourers in marginal paddy landowning households is much higher. Again, the number
of self-employed persons, which includes
businessmen and traders, amounts to 17.31 percent of the total number of employed persons.
Occupation-wise distribution of employed persons from sample
households is given in table 3.10.
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