Unintended Consequences of Migration and Labour Vacuum in Agrarian Rural Village in Nepal

Abstract

A large number of youths from the rural areas have been migrated to the urban areas and abroad for better opportunities for a few decades.As the volume and pace of youth outmigration increased, it created an agricultural labour vacuum and precipitated unintended consequences on rural agrarian economic production, livelihood, and consumer behaviors of the people in the village.The main objective of the article is to explore and analyze agrarian recession (decline of agricultural and livestock activities) and strategies of livelihood among the villagers whose family members were migrated in and out of the country.Previous studies on migration are mostly limited to the analysis of cost-benefit in the national economy and thus were unable to explore the scope, intensity, and unintended consequences