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Feminization of Agriculture: Reflections from the Female Participation in Training Programmes on Agriculture and Allied Activities
Women are actively involved in agriculture and contribute significantly in agriculture and allied activities. Despite their active involvement in all aspects of agriculture like crop selection, land preparation, seed selection, cold storage handling, marketing and processing, their work is unorgani...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Journal of Krishi Vigyan
2015
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/004650.pdf |
| Summary: | Women are actively involved in agriculture and contribute significantly in agriculture and allied
activities. Despite their active involvement in all aspects of agriculture like crop selection, land
preparation, seed selection, cold storage handling, marketing and processing, their work is
unorganized, unvalued and unrewarded. Active
involvement of women in agriculture clearly
indicates the feminization of agriculture referring to increasing presence or visibility in agriculture
labour force, whether as agricultural worker, independent producers or unremunerated family
workers. Is this trend of visibility of women in agriculture equally visible when it comes to
capacity building of farmers? Is women participation in training programmes proportionate to
their participation in agriculture and allied activities? The present paper was an attempt to find
an answer to this by looking at the various vocational trainings conducted in the field of
agriculture and allied activities from gender lens. The trainings conducted in the field of poultry,
dairy, bee-keeping, mushroom cultivation
and agricultural engineering during the last five
years (2010-2014) in Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar were analyzed. The
study indicated that although the participation of females in training programmes related to
agriculture and allied activities has increased especially in dairy and mushroom cultivation but
it was not in proportion and according to the rate of participation of females in agriculture or
their representation in the population |
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| Item Description: | Special Issue on Women Empowerment |
| Physical Description: | p.50-54 015, 3(Special Issue) : |