Abstract :
123 household from Madhya Nepal Municipality of Lamjung District was selected to study socioeconomic trend of the remittance-receiving households and the effect of international labor migration in agricultural activities management. Purposive snowball sampling technique and semi-structured questionnaires were used. The study showed that majority of household heads were male (61%) and female (39%), were involved in agriculture occupation. Migration is the major source of income followed by agriculture. The main destination of migrant was gulf country, i.e., 81% followed by India (16%) and 3% were in developed countries such as the UK and the USA. Major affected factor by migration was found to be agriculture labor shortage (32%). Correlation showed that there is negative and significant relation between migration and labor used (?0.216*) and change in cropping pattern (?0.275**). It implies that migration leads to labor shortage which leads to change in cropping pattern
Keyword :
Agriculture, remittance, youth migration