Author(s):

Anshuman Jena and Adityaprasad Kanungo

Abstract: India is losing more than 2,000 farmers every single day with large scale migration of rural youth to urban areas for non-farm occupations. In this situation some mechanism is to be developed for reinforcing the emotional attachment of the migrant children for non-farming occupations quitting their parental farming occupations, so that the disenchantment scenario can be controlled to some extent. The present study entitled “A Comparative Study on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Farming Sector in Coastal and Tribal Districts of Odisha” was carried out from July 2016 to March 2017 with a perceptual and comparative analysis among the respondents of coastal district (Jagatsinghpur) and tribal district (Mayurbhanj) of Odisha state with the total sample of 240 respondents out of which 120 each from tribal and coastal selected through proportionate random sampling in an intention to find out the impact of intergenerational occupational mobility in farming sector. The study found that the independent variable, technological development contributed higher variance to the dependent variable occupational mobility i.e. change in occupation across the generation in tribal district while technological, economic and social development had contributed higher variance to the dependent variable occupational mobility in coastal areas.

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