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Sustainable alternate livelihood avocations for coastal women in India

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Title Sustainable alternate livelihood avocations for coastal women in India
 
Creator Immanuel, Sheela
Narayanakumar, R
Ayyappan, S
 
Subject Fishing Community
 
Description Fisheries tiom the major source of employment,
income and livelihood for most of the people inhabiting
the coastal region. Women in fisheries are in general
labelled as imperceptible workers as their contributions
are not adequately apprehended and realized. Fishing in
India is the main stay of men but women too play a major
role in pre and'post harvest activities. The fishers'
population in the coastal villages of India is around 3.52
million out of which 49 per cent are women (CMFRI,
Census, 2005). Fisherwomen actively ir~volveth emselves
in diff~i.3~sc:: ivi:ics czd thereby ~u?plementt heir family
income. it was observed that women even migrate to nearby
places to gain employment. But, their level of. migration
is primarily hampered by the social system. More over,
women have a a propensity to take up inherent traditional
activities rather than innovative activities. They also depend
on their closer environmint for their livelihood and most
of the works they do are confined within their environment.
Unlike Inen ihey cannot stretch out to far of places for
gaining employment because they shoulder the family
responsibilities and hence their economic oriented activity
too is very limited.
 
Contributor Silas, E G
 
Date 2008
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2485/1/Sheela.pdf
Immanuel, Sheela and Narayanakumar, R and Ayyappan, S (2008) Sustainable alternate livelihood avocations for coastal women in India. Agricultural Situation in India, 65 (2). pp. 83-88.