Analyse the problem of underemployment in agriculture sector in India.

(i) In agriculture more than required people are employed. This means even if a few people are moved out, production will not be affected. In other words, workers in the agricultural sector are underemployed.

(ii) All the members of a family work in the plot throughout the year. They have nowhere else to go for work. So, everyone is working, none remains idle, but in actual fact, their labour effort gets divided.

(iii) Each one is doing some work but no one is fully employed. This is the situation of underemployment, where people are apparently working but all of them are made to work less than their potential.

(iv) This kind of underemployment is hidden in contrast to someone who does not have a job and is clearly visible as unemployed. Hence it is also called disguised unemployment.

(v) By providing additional opportunities like opening cold storage, honey collection centers, vegetable processing industries etc. extra workers can be gainfully employed.