How is the rural in Kerala a mixed economy?

In many places in India agricultural development had been taken place. Such development led to the old cultivating groups to transform themselves into an active entrepreneurial, rural-urban dominant class. Whereas some places in India like Eastern UP and Bihar had changes in the agrarian structure and in the way people earn their livelihood through the introduction of some measures such as political mobilization, lack of proper land reforms and redistributive measures.

Contrary to this, in the states like Kerala where the similar measures of political mobilisation, link with the external economy like gulf countries and redistributive measures had brought a different type of changes. This led to considerable changes in the rural economy. Clearly aware of the fact that rural economy has always been based on agriculture but the rural in Kerala is a mixed economy. It not only incorporates agriculture as a part of its economy but also has a wide network of retail sales and services. Also, a large number of the population is depended on the allowance which they get from abroad.