Record Details

Gender-related impacts of improved agricultural technologies identification of indicators from a case study

OAR@ICRISAT

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/3037/
http://gtd.sagepub.com/content/1/3/371.abstract
 
Title Gender-related impacts of improved agricultural technologies identification of indicators from a case study
 
Creator Bantilan, M C S
Ramadevi, K
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description PIP:

This study examines the gender-related consequences of adoption of a groundnut production technology (GPT) package introduced in Umra village for increasing the production of legumes in India. GPT affected household labor activity patterns, decision making, and distribution of benefits. The package offered improved varieties and improved practices. Data were obtained from surveys conducted among 26 farm households in each Umra and Karanji village during 1992-94 and among 15 agricultural wage laborer households from Umra and 21 from Karanji. Men and women both cooperated in certain groundnut production activities and specialized in other activities. Men used agricultural equipment and tools and performed hard labor. Women used hand skills or small tools. Villages differed in gender task specificity. Umra women after GPT reported more work in field cleaning, fertilizer application, and sowing by hand dibbling. A new GPT activity of gypsum application was handled in almost 60% of farm households by women. Large yield gains changed harvesting activities in Umra. The number of exclusive activities performed only by women rose after GPT. GPT was not designed to eliminate drudgery performed by women. Umra women spent more time than Karanji women in production. More labor was needed with GPT. Wage rates for women workers were similar in both villages. Wages were less in Umra for men compared to Karanji. Men and women jointly decided on resource allocations in 53% of households in Karanji and only 36% in Umra. The adoption of GPT reduced the control of women over resource use. More joint and sole decisions by women were made in Umra on the use of the main product. Women gained control over products for home use in Umra. Men retained control over the value of 80% of the crop. Both men and women were satisfied with GPT, but specific perceptions differed by gender.
 
Publisher SAGE Publications
 
Date 1997
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights —
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3037/1/Gender-related_impacts_of_improved_agricultural_technologies_identification_of_indicators_from_a_case_study.pdf
Bantilan, M C S and Ramadevi, K (1997) Gender-related impacts of improved agricultural technologies identification of indicators from a case study. Gender, Technology and Development, 1 (3). pp. 371-393. ISSN 0971-8524