Plantation is a part of agriculture, in which the cultivation of crops is better planned and refined. According to International Labour Organization the term 'Plantation' includes any agricultural undertaking regularly employing hired...
morePlantation is a part of agriculture, in which the cultivation of crops is better planned and refined. According to International Labour Organization the term 'Plantation' includes any agricultural undertaking regularly employing hired workers which is situated in the tropical or subtropical regions and which is mainly concerned with the cultivation or production for commercial purposes of coffee, tea, sugarcane, rubber, bananas, cocoa, coconuts, groundnuts, cotton, tobacco, fibres (sisal, jute and hemp), citrus, palm oil, cinchona or pineapple; it does not include family or small-scale holdings producing for local consumption and not regularly employing hired workers. Plantation crops include variety of products like Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Pepper and other spices; Tobacco also is classified under this category. Rubber is one of the prominent plantation crops of our country and has considerable significance on the Indian economy. In Tamil Nadu, Kanyakumari District accounts for 98 percentage of production of rubber. They provide employment to 1874 people mostly from the rural area where there is very little employment opportunity. This study is to find the Socioeconomic condition such as income, education, wealth, place of residence and employment status of rubber plantation labourers of Kanyakumari District. Due to variety of reasons the conditions in the rubber plantations remained unsatisfactory for a long time. Socioeconomic condition of plantation labourers remained very unsatisfactory with low wages, unhygienic working and living conditions. The questionnaire is the major tool in collecting data. Convenient sampling technique is used for data collection. Percentage analysis is used for analysis.