Women in agriculture

Gender issues and gender inequality still exist in many countries, especially in remote and poor rural areas. Rural women often suffer from economic disadvantages, low self-confidence in the family and community, and limited access to health, social services, and extension services, which leads to lesser decisionmaking roles in the production and business of households and in leadership at work.

10p vimichaelfaraday 28-12-2023 7 3   Download

The paper deals with the food security, nutrition security, health security and livelihood security, it deals with product development for livelihood and nutritional security; women empowerment for food security and rural development.

7p viisac 23-09-2023 4 1   Download

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Handbook of agricultural economics - Vol 1A: Agricultural production" provides readers with contents including: human capital - education and agriculture; women's roles in the agricultural household - bargaining and human capital investments; human capital - migration and rural population change; agricultural finance - credit, credit constraints, and consequences; economic impacts of agricultural research and extension; the agricultural producer - theory and statistical measurement;...

457p lytamnguyet 04-08-2023 6 2   Download

This research conducted in Ketapang village as one of administrative area in Susukan subdistrict, Semarang regency. Agriculture sector in Ketapang village is managed by the society. Women farmer is managed by Women Farmer Group (WFG) with the name of An Nisak I, An Nisak II and Bunga. The results showed that the factors influenced in organic agricultural system carried out by women farmer group amongs other are inputs of production individual characteristics of the farmers, and cultures.

8p tethientran 27-07-2023 6 4   Download

The main objective of the study was to reduce the drudgery of the female farm workers and to recommend the proper method for doing shelling operations of maize cobs. Use of proper method not only reduces the drudgery but also improves the operating efficiency along with the comfort, besides improving the productivity of the women farm workers in doing the operation. In view of this, an effort has been made to assess the physical and physiological parameters of women farm workers who are following traditional method along with the improved method for doing shelling operation of maize cobs.

15p cothumenhmong11 11-05-2021 11 2   Download

This study aimed at assessing the socio-economic status, cost and returns of incomegenerating activities, effects of micro-finance and empowerment of self-help group members (SHG) in Bithri Chainpur Block of Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh. Primary data was collected from 80 SHG members and 30 non-SHG members with the help of structured schedule for the year 2012.

4p trinhthamhodang11 27-04-2021 8 1   Download

The present study was conducted in Navsari district of Gujarat in order to ascertain the relationship between selected independent variables of farm women and their decision making ability in agriculture and dairying activities. A total of 100 farm women were selected as respondents from 100 villages of all the six talukas of Navsari district.

4p trinhthamhodang11 27-04-2021 10 1   Download

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.

7p chauchaungayxua10 18-03-2021 14 1   Download

The study showed that majority of the farmers (77%) have a favourable attitude towards ICTs followed by 14.25 per cent of the respondents have a highly favourable attitude and 8.75 per cent had least favourable attitudes. This means that there is a scope for higher usage of ICTs in disseminating the agriculture related information among the respondents. Similarly significant association had been found between attitude towards ICTs with age, educational qualification, organizational membership and extension contact.

4p chauchaungayxua11 23-03-2021 11 2   Download

The present study was aimed to construct, develop and standardize a knowledge scale on use & operation of ICT in agriculture and allied areas by rural women. After reviewing different related literature, the researcher outlined a scale and after that analyzing the content framed 80 items related to the course.

5p chauchaungayxua11 23-03-2021 6 1   Download

Agripreneurs were agricultural entrepreneurs. This study focused on entrepreneurial behavior of women agripreneurs. Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu was selected as it had highest female work participation rate (42.8%). Out of four taluks, Namakkal and Paramathi velur taluk was selected since it had the greatest number of agro-based enterprises.

8p chauchaungayxua11 23-03-2021 19 1   Download

The union territory of Ladakh is a cold arid desert with a majority of tribal population. The agriculture season here is limited for a few months owing to the harsh climatic conditions. In this extremely tough terrain; a farm women; Padma Dolkar from a remote village Chemday situated in district Leh of this region has taken the challenges of this harsh and tough terrain head-on.

6p trinhthamhodang9 16-12-2020 13 1   Download

The study recommends a requirement for scientists, government and non-government agents and other stakeholders to focus on awareness creation on climate change and mitigating approaches in perception of crop Rotation, drought tolerant varieties, Zero Tillage, Weather Forecasting, Indigenous technologies etc.

8p trinhthamhodang9 16-12-2020 16 2   Download

In this way a total of 40 aonla growing farmers and 40 aonla growing farm women from Ajmer district and 80 aonla growing farmers and 80 aonla growing farm women from Jaipur district were selected to constitute the total sample size of 120 aonla growing farmers and 120 aonla growing farm women comprising a total of 240 respondents for the study purpose.

6p nguathienthan8 20-10-2020 9 1   Download

This review paper deals about important strategies to improve the nutrition security in India such as promotion of industrial fortified products, promotion of homestead gardening practices, snacks based food supplements for women of childbearing age, enhancement of diversified agricultural production, empowerment of rural women, strengthening the links between the agriculture -nutrition and health sectors, providing nutrition education, ground water improvement climate change mitigation in agriculture for sustainable production, development of infrastructures in marginalized areas.

7p trinhthamhodang1215 23-09-2020 23 2   Download

This paper tries to examine the media habits among women organic farmers, to know the time given to each media by women and to find out the popular media among women. For the present research multi stage sampling design was used. The sample consists of 122 women farmers and the Pre-tested questionnaire was used for collection of information. The data reveals that majority of the respondents spend one hour for every media and the interesting finding of the study indicates that 62.29% of the respondents do not accessed internet at all. Only 0.

7p quenchua8 29-09-2020 10 1   Download

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.

4p trinhthamhodang1215 23-09-2020 7 1   Download

Agricultural activities as well as exposure to pesticides could have many adverse effects on health status and reproductive outcomes especially in reproductive aged greenhouse workers. The present study aimed to compare the general and reproductive health outcomes between female greenhouse workers and housewives.

7p vitokyo2711 31-08-2020 11 3   Download

The present study was undertaken to study the involvement of women in agricultural activities. Total sample of 120 farm women were selected through purposive random sampling method. Exploratory research design was used for the study. The study was conducted by using a structured interview schedule. The data was analyzed using frequency, percentage and mean percent score.

7p kethamoi7 26-08-2020 5 1   Download

The present study was conducted at Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, India. Total hundred respondents were randomly selected for the study that is comprised of farmers, input dealers, NGO staff, Bank employees, KVK staff, farmer's club members, SAU, panchayat members, private companies and state extension professionals etc.The personal interview method is followed to collect the information from each and every women stakeholder of the women led agricultural innovation system in the study area.Actor oriented tools like Actor Linkage Map and Actor linkage Matrix were used in this study.

10p kethamoi7 26-08-2020 12 1   Download