ABSTRACT

This study, based on primary data, highlights various facets of overseas remittances received by rural farm households of Punjab. Importantly, higher proportion of sampled farm households had received overseas remittances on regular basis. Per-household and per capita amount of remittances realized was substantial. All size class of land holders had received remittances with no unique relationship to size of holding. The remittances, in overall, had contributed substantially to income of households. The pattern of utilization of remittances showed their diverse uses. The level of remittances depends upon 'years of stay of first emigrant in destination country', 'education of first emigrant from family', and 'number of persons abroad from family'. However, remittances had practically bypassed agriculture sector as large number of sampled households has completely leased out their agricultural land and very small proportion of received remittances was used for purchase of agricultural land and machinery.

摘要

这项基于原始数据的研究重点介绍了旁遮普农村农户收到的海外汇款的各个方面。重要的是，较高比例的样本农户定期收到海外汇款。实现的户均和人均汇款金额可观。所有规模级别的土地所有者都收到了汇款，与土地规模没有独特的关系。总体而言，汇款对家庭收入的贡献很大。汇款的使用模式表明其用途多种多样。汇款水平取决于“第一位移民在目的地国家的停留年限”、“第一位移民的家庭教育程度”和“家庭海外人数”。然而，