Rural women in agriculture activities

The study was conducted on 120 trainee’s rural women in Madhya Pradesh state to ascertain their socio-economic characteristics. The socio economic involvement of women is related to their status and role in the family and the society. Women is the back bone of agriculture, comprise the majority of agricultural labours in Madhya Pradesh. It is recognized that women’s participation in income enhancing activities to increase their socio economic status and power in the society.

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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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The number of female-headed households is increasing as a result of civil wars. The IAASTD describes this as „the feminisation of agriculture‟ that is having profound and far-reaching effects, both positive and negative. Compared to men, women and girls are still more severely affected by poverty, hunger and disease. When food is scarce, female family members often get the smallest portions. On the labour market, women are literally paid starvation wages. Mothers also suffer most from lack of medical care and balanced diets.

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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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Women constitute a major and vital work force in agriculture. Nearly 84% of all economically active women in India are engaged in agriculture and allied activities. But the irony is that, most of the agricultural equipment and tools are designed keeping in mind men‟s physiological parameters which are substantially different from women‟s physiological parameters. Even the tools and equipment should not only be tailor made for women while they should be designed according to local conditions and demand.

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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 of Rajasthan has to perform agricultural practices and contribute a major share of family economy in terms of food grains, oilseeds, vegetables, fruits, milk, wool, fuel, fiber, timber etc. The average sex ratio of the region is low. The literacy status of the women is also lower than their male counterpart. The participation of women in the tertiary sector such as medical, teaching, administrative and other official services is lower than the male population.

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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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The present study was conducted in Sirsa district on fifty rural women beneficiaries to whom ten days rigorous training was given on food and preservation. Results highlighted the facts that 64.0 percent beneficiaries were educated upto secondary level and only 12 percent were graduated and belonged to agricultural community. Most of the women were doing little bit of pickle work like lemon and chilly pickle. But they were unaware about other preservation procedures like formation of squashes, chutneys, murrabha, etc.

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Participation of women is not limited to agricultural activities only but they are contributing significantly towards livestock management. The study is an in depth analysis of participation of women in various agricultural activities. Therefore, the rural women play a significant role in agricultural activities such as seeding, transplanting, weeding, fertilizer application, plant protection, harvesting, processing, storage etc. Several of these operations are carried out by women only. The present study was conducted in Jaipur region of Rajasthan.

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Post-harvest grain storage operation is a concluding activity in agriculture and mostly performed by rural women to secure the food grains and reduce the post-harvest losses. Post-harvest losses occur from farm to ultimate consumption. These losses might be either due to lack of awareness on the part of rural women about the scientific grain storage methods, improved storage practices and improved storage structures.

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Rural Indian women are extensively involved in agricultural activities. Grain cleaning and grading for women in rural area is a big problem because they use traditional sieve for cleaning and grading manually in sitting posture. This posture increases the fatigue and drudgery of farm women while cleaning and grading which results in aches and pains in the back and cervical region. This is time consuming method and output realized is less.

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The diversification of economic activity and labour market development have both been identified as possible strategies to reduce the vulnerability of the poor and enable the ascent out of poverty. Whether such policies are necessarily empow-ering for women has been much debated but less well documented. In this book we adopt a comparative case study approach using original survey material for three African countries and a state in India to investigate these links

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The biggest losers have been the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in society, especially rural women and men in developing countries. Three out of four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most depend on agriculture or related activities for their livelihoods. According to a World Bank country rating study, in agriculture-based countries – those where agriculture contributes an average of 32 per cent of GDP growth – 70 per cent of poor people live in rural areas.

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