• Dr. Jaison V Joseph

Migration is as old as the history of mankind. The farmers of southern districts of Kerala, especially from Kottayam district migrated to Malabar region (Kannur and Calicut districts) in search of fertile agricultural land for their livelihood and survival as early as 1930s and came to end in mid 1970s. The various indicators used for the study are Total Cropped Area (TCA),Net Area Sown (NAS), Area Sown More than Once (ASMO), Cultivable Waste Land (CWL), Barren and uncultivable land, Fallow land and Current fallow land and land put to non-agricultural uses and analysed the changes occurred in the land utilisation pattern between 1957-58 and 1973-74 in the erstwhile Kannur district. The paper reveals that migration is a reality as the land put to non-agricultural uses have increased and the area under cultivable waste land, barren and fallow land decreases tremendously due to the migration of peasants. The net area sown and total cropped area has increased while comparing to state and the area sown more than once decrease by 10.35 % in Kannur where as in the state it increases by 111.55 % stems the existence of migration.

migration, net area sown, peasants, wasteland, barren land.

"MALABAR MIGRATION AND ITS IMPACT UPON THE LAND UTILISATION PATTERN IN KERALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.915-919, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904R40.pdf

"MALABAR MIGRATION AND ITS IMPACT UPON THE LAND UTILISATION PATTERN IN KERALA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp915-919, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904R40.pdf