Volume : VIII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

Mainstreaming of Gender in Indian Agriculture

Dr. Mehar B Meerja

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Since long time, gender based bias faced by rural women in terms of limited access to productive resources (Land, Credit, Inputs, Transport, Extension Services, Storage and Technical Assistance) prevent them from adopting new technologies or encoring them economies of scale. The role of women in agriculture of low income countries particularly in Asia is between 60–80%. This paper examines the ways in which greater integration of gender mainstreaming efforts through agricultural impact on women and men differently and ensures implications for sustainable growth. This paper highlights the available policies, schemes, programmes of Indian agriculture to integrate the gender with them. Although, women are more than employed, differences in wages earned by women and men persist in all countries. Women also have less access to productive resources especially in developing countries. Once different impacts are ascertained well designed policy responses may aid women in taking advantage of greater openness to agriculture.

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Dr. Mehar B Meerja, Mainstreaming of Gender in Indian Agriculture, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-7 | July-2018

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