Explanation:

There are many reasons as to why the rural wages have grown in past decade or so.
• The movement of labour away from agriculture has gathered momentum in recent decades.
• Schemes like MGNREGA are pumping in additional money and purchasing power in rural India.
• In the last decade, India has seen rapid growth of its economy and agricultural productivity, and a rise in the share of the non-agricultural sector in income and employment.
• Food constitutes a large share of the rural consumption basket, so high food inflation may raise the socially accepted minimum nominal wage.
All of these contributed to wage hikes and growing capitalist interested in cutting down labour cost by mechanization.