The factors responsible for poor economic conditions of farm labourers like Dala and Ramkaliare :
(i) Use of modern farming techniques: Use of modern farming techniques make it difficult for farm labourers to get work. Tractors are used for ploughing, harvesters for harvesting, threshers for threshing and weedicide for removing weeds. This leaves very less or no work for farm labourers.
(ii) Poorly Paid: Due to heavy competition for work among the farm labourers, people agree to work for lower wages. The minimum wages for a farm labourer set by government is Rs. 60 per day but they are generally paid only half of it. This forces them to take loan from local money lenders which put them in the vicious circle of ***.
