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Tribal Farm Women's Participation in Agriculture and Factors Influencing It: Evidence from West Bengal, India

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Title Tribal Farm Women's Participation in Agriculture and Factors Influencing It: Evidence from West Bengal, India
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Creator A. Shamna, P. Biswas, S. K. Jha, S. Sarkar and Sh. Kumar
 
Subject Constraints to participation, Economic motivation, Farming activties, Tribal community.
 
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A study was conducted at Makaltala and Farmania villages of Habra block, North 24
Parganas,West Bengal, India, to know the extent of tribal women’s participation in
farming activties. Rice-Jute-Mustard rotation was predominant in the study area. The
results showed that participation of tribal farm women were 28.3 man-days on an average
during the crop seasons. Participation in farming activities during mustard crop season in
terms of average man-days was more (11.81) when compared to paddy (9.48) and jute
(7.01). The involvement of women was more in transplantation, weeding, and harvesting
activities. Most of the farm women were middle aged, illiterate, had high economic
motivation and social participation. The independent variables like education and
economic motivation had significant positive relationship, whereas age and social
participation had significant negative relationship with participation of tribal women in
farming activities. Lack of education, knowledge, and skill, lack of child care facilities,
low income derived from agriculture, etc. were the major constraints expressed by the
tribal women. Skill development among the tribal farm women regarding the new simple
agriculture technologies suitable to their location will have a far reaching impact on
improving the tribal farm women’s participation in agriculture, improving their
confidence in farming.
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Date 2021-08-24T08:44:07Z
2021-08-24T08:44:07Z
1001-01-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/60297
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology