Monica Priya

Urbanisation: Pushing farmers out of fields

Various push and pull factors of urbanisation are driving the farmers in peri-urban Hyderabad out of their fields.

Posted on 17 Jul, 2017 02:46 PM

A dominant characteristic of a peri-urban site is its transition out of an agrarian economy due to industrialisation and urbanisation. This usually manifests in the form of agricultural land either left barren or sold for developmental activities and farmers and agricultural labourers looking for an alternative source of livelihood.

Agriculture is slowly vanishing from peri-urban areas. (Source: SaciWATERS)

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