Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018

Constraints Faced by Farm Women in Performing Agriculture and Allied Activities

Poonam, Dr. Aditi Vats

Abstract :

Farm women areassociated directly or indirectly with agriculture and allied activities. Farm women have to play multiple roleswithin 24 hours of time which is at their disposal.Their contribution has not been recognized and they are considered as ‘invisible farmers. Due to the pressure and intense desire to satisfy the needs related to her many of the constraints and conflicts arise.These constraints divert her personal, social, economic, technological and political growth and progress resulting in decreased work efficiency coupled with adverse effect on her role performance.A total of 200 farm women were selected as respondents through random sampling. The selected respondents were personally interviewed using pre–tested well– structured interview schedule. The finding showed that the major constraints that farm women faced were dual role played by women at farm and home, male dominance, lack of credit facilities, lack of decision–making power, poor contacts with extension agents, lack of knowledge and skill and their illiteracy also hindered their progressand invariably paid lower wages than men forsame agricultural work. A significant difference was found in independent variables and their social, economic, technological, political, agricultural, marketing, physiological and psychological constraints. Therefore, the present research was being carried out in order to identifythe constraints related to farm women for their empowerment status, to perform the task effectively and economically in terms of enhance empowerment status.

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Poonam, Dr. Aditi Vats, Constraints Faced by Farm Women in Performing Agriculture and Allied Activities, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-8 | August-2018

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