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ICTs and Farm Women: Access, Use and Impact

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Title ICTs and Farm Women: Access, Use and Impact
 
Creator Jain, R
Ahuja, U R
Kumar, A
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The ICTs in recent years have witnessed major changes and are emerging as a
powerful tool for accelerating agricultural growth in a developing country like India.
There has been a rapid growth in the lCT sector since the late 1980s and the use of
ICT has dramatically expanded since the 1990s. Simultaneously the Indian
agriculture is moving towards feminisation and the role of women in agricultural
growth and development has been increasing considerably. Though women's
contribution in food production, food processing leading to eventual export of
agricultural production has been well documented but not fully recognized they face
greater constraints than men farmers (Chand et al .. 2012). Women farmers have been
reported to be 20-30 per cent less productive than men (FAO, 2011). The less
productivity of women is attributed to lack of access to resources including land,
finance and technology......
 
Publisher Indian Society of Agricultural Economics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6589/1/IJAgriEco_67_3_385-394_2012.pdf
Jain, R and Ahuja, U R and Kumar, A (2012) ICTs and Farm Women: Access, Use and Impact. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 67 (3). pp. 385-394. ISSN 0019-5014