Urbanisation per se becomes significant since it affects employment, migration, literacy, access to markets and infrastructure. Therefore, an attempt is made in this paper to analyse the relationship between urbanisation and agriculture. Thoothukudi district was selected for the study as the urban population in the district increased from 42.03 per cent in 2001 to 50.28 percent in 2011. A sample of 120 respondents was drawn from 6 villages located in three blocks to represent rural, semi urban and urban settings. Results revealed that vegetables were cultivated in considerable areas in urban areas (3.09 per cent) compared to rural areas (0.51 per cent). Urban villages were placed with medical facilities as they had higher number of clinics. In practical, these villages act as a hub for nearby villages where the medical practitioners set up clinics and provide medical services. As the urban villages registered the highest number of industrial establishments, they also had highest number of hotels and tea shops. The role played by the unscrupulous middlemen in land and real estate business aggravated the problem of idling of lands in this locality. This has resulted in land use pattern adversely impacting on agriculture. The semi-urban farmers considered non availability of suitable machinery as the second major constraint in agriculture in the urbanization context and they expressed that use of suitable machineries would reduce the dependence on labour in agriculture.
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2022: 6.012
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