Rural farm women

The present study was conducted with the specific objective “To study the participation and decision making pattern of women in farm related activities in rural areas of Telangana”. For this purpose, a total of 150 respondents were selected randomly from 12 villages of Karimnagar, Jagityal and Mancherial districts of Telangana and were interviewed with the help of structured interview schedule.

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Rural women constitute 70 per cent of total female population of the country. The profile of rural woman is that of illiterate, ignorant, poor, superstitious, suppressed and oppressed because of limited skills. The rural woman needs to be trained, through life skills education. Education is a powerful tool for transformation of society. It can inculcate social, moral, and professional values in a person. It can also help in Life skills development.

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The present study was carried out in two districts of Uttarakhand State. A sample size of 120 respondents was taken for descriptive data using purposive and random sampling. Interview the descriptive data was collected with the help of interview schedule method to study the practices adopted and impact of drudgery on women and children.

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A sample of 120 female respondents were randomly selected from 6 mandals of Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh and interviewed to understand the importance and involvement of rural women in different activities relating to livestock farming and to study the impact of various socioeconomic factors on women’s participation.

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The paper explores the economic viability of vegetable farming in Raichur district of Karnataka State. The primary data were collected form women vegetable growers in Raichur District using well prepared and pre tested questionnaire.

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The objective of the present study was to identify the technological gap in knowledge perceived by rural women in processing and preservation of fruits of Udaipur District. The study was conducted in Badgaon and Girwa panchayat samities of Udaipur district of Rajasthan state. From each panchayat samiti, two villages were included in the study. The sample consisted of randomly selected 100 rural women, 25 from each village. Interview method was used for data collection.

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In the present study, a total 124 participants were judged for their knowledge gain after training on Mushroom Production Technologies. The training programme on Mushroom Production technologies were arranged for rural youth, farmers and farm women of district Barnala, Punjab. Maximum knowledge gain (86.29 %) was observed in Button mushroom compost production technologies followed by 81.45 per cent knowledge gain in learning about the commercial varieties of mushrooms popular in northern India.

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It believed that the domestication of animals and crops was done by the women in the ancient age, thereby initiated the art and science of farming. In the present context, rural women folk are extensively involved in agricultural and allied activities, their work has been increased from home to land and vice-versa.

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Primary occupation of India is agriculture and rural areas are quite concerned with this occupation. There are various aspects on which the rural development is based on agriculture, improving standard of living, imparting education, women empowerment and many more. Information sharing of new production processes with farmers was prominent in the sixties which was the key to the success of the green revolution. Rural economies can be benefitted from ICT by focusing on social production, social consumption and social services in rural areas (Malhotra, 2001).

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The women folk are considered the backbone of the nation and better half of the men in almost all spheres of community development. Rural women constitute about 50% of the total rural population. The present study was conducted in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh to know the Participation of rural women in the decision-making process of dairy farming. Data were collected from 120 rural women using a structured interview schedule.

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This paper present recognizing nutritional and medicinal value, productivity and profitability; mushroom farming has been identified as a profitable enterprise which can lead to integrate rural development by increasing the income and self employment.

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India is the world's largest milk producer and primarily an agricultural society where animal husbandry is the backbone of the national economy. In Rajasthan, dairying provides millions of marginal farmers and landless labourers for their livelihood so it is a major economic activity of rural people. The state faces constant drought and famine, which often leads to crop failure because most of the agriculture is fed with rain. In this climate scenario, the dairy sector provides permanent annual income to a large number of farmers.

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The entitlements of women farmers will be the key to improve agriculture productivity, It said, even as it noted that there is an increasing number of women in multiple roles in agriculture sector, as cultivators entrepreneurs and laborers. Alongside, it is focusing on women self – help groups to connect them to micro credit through capacity building activities and to provide information and ensure their representation in decision-making bodies. “Rural women are responsible for the integrated management and use to diverse natural resources to meet the daily household needs.

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The present study on ―Low back pain assessment of Farm women involved in Sericulture‖ was done to assess the musculoskeletal discomforts faced by farm women who are actively involved in Sericulture industry. Low back pain is a universal experience that every human has at some point. It is a symptom of a pain that can be found between the twelfth rib and the inferior gluteal folds of the body. Sericulture is an important industry in the rural areas of Meghalaya where rural women are involved. The study was done in two villages of Samanda Block in East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.

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Goat rearing plays a prominent role in the rural economy in supplementing the income of rural household particularly the landless, marginal and small farmers. Goat is considered as poor man‟s cow and it can be profitably being reared with low investment under semiintensive as well as the extensive systems of management. They provide quick return on account of their short generation intervals, high rate of prolificacy and making the related products.

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Krishi Vigyan Kendras – KVKs (Farm Science Centres) had been established by Indian council of Agricultural Research (at present there are 695 KVKs under XI ATARIs). Imparting vocational trainings for entrepreneurship development for women, rural youth and farmers is one of the mandate of KVKs. The present study was conducted on evaluating the effectiveness of vocational trainings on Mushroom cultivation held at Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Utukur conducted which is needed for further improvement in their standard.

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In rural India, the percentage of women who depend on agriculture for their livelihood is as high as 84%.Apart from participation in actual cultivation; women participate in various forms of processing and marketing of agricultural produce. Women accounted for 93% of total employment in dairy production. To begin with training programmes were started to self-help groups (SHG) on labour saving equipment, processing, value addition and storage of grains followed by model processing units establishment in rural areas. Workshops and melas were also conducted for empowerment of women in SHGs.

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The study aims at identifying the potential role of Indian farmwomen in fruit based production system along with realising their constraints which limits their considerable contribution in terms of technology application, use of agri-inputs and commercial marketing. The magnitude of their participation is hardly visualized, which creates perceptible gender gap. The emerging issues of farmer suicide, rural-urban migration of male members and disenchantment of rural youth in agriculture, overburden the Indian farmwomen with farming activities.

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Women play pivotal role in rural development in developing countries, among the poor, rural women are the poorest and more venerable. Empirical evidences suggest that women in rural areas are more adversely affect by poverty than men. Hence, there is need for economic upliftment of the farm women through enhancing their income and reducing the drudgery for maintaining their health condition. This study was conducted in Gwalior district, comprises of 4 blocks namely- Morar, Ghatigaon, Dabra, Bhitarwar. Three Villages of each block were selected purposively.

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Capacity building in rural women through formation and strengthening of SHGs was experimented at Khagribari, Dhalaguru and Dhandingguri villages of Cooch Behar district of West Bengal during 2012-15 with an objective to motivate the rural women to involve in different rural development programmes. Before the start of the trial most of the women were mere housewife and performed agricultural and allied activities in their own farming situation. Many of them were not the member of any group or organization.

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