Abstract

• Labor is one of the components of agricultural production. The agricultural sector is facing the problem of labor shortage in Nyaung Pin Zin village. This study aims to find out the effects of labor shortage in agriculture faced by the farmers in Nyaung Pin Zin village. This research argues that labor shortage encourages the increasing the labor wages. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were applied in this research. The fieldwork was done from 2022, November to 2023, September. It was found that the demand for labor exceeded the supply and reached its peak during the time of transplanting, weeding, and harvesting. Farmers underwent the effects of labor shortage in agriculture especially on economic activities and social activities of the farmers. This study also revealed the strategies to overcome the labor shortage in agriculture. However, these strategies cannot properly solve the problem of labor shortage in agriculture at Nyaung Pin Zin village.