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- Status of Farm Women of Assam as Clientele of the Agricultural Extension Services
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1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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International Journal of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, Vol 4, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 15-22Abstract
A woman is the nucleus of the family, she share abundant responsibilities to perform wide spectrum of duties both at home and outside the home. She plays a significant role in agricultural development and allied fields. Despite their importance to agricultural production, agricultural development programmes are usually targeted at men. Women are generally by-passed in development efforts. A study was conducted in three agro-climatic zones of Assam to study the socio-economic status of farm women and to find out the status of farm women as clientele of the agricultural extension services. A multistage purposive cum random sampling design was followed. Altogether 1,200 farm women were included as sample of respondents. Data were collected with the help of structured interview schedule 52.60 per cent of farm women belonged to low socio-economic status. 55.17 per cent of farm women contributed labour independently in cleaning. On an average women spent 13-15 hours a day in farm and domestic activities. 41.67 per cent of farm women had attended training on fruits and vegetables preservation. Lack of awareness of the extension programme was the first most importance problems faced by farm women for attending extension training and ranked as I. Management of pest and diseases was the first most important training need areas of farm women and ranked as I. Lack of knowledge on plant protection was the first most important problems faced by farm women in cultivation of rice and ranked as I. It can be conclude that the status of farm as clientele of the agricultural extension service was not satisfactory.Keywords
Status, Farm Women, Agricultural Extension Service.
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- Participation of Farm Women of Assam In Cultivation of Rice and Problems Faced by Them
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1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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Agriculture Update, Vol 13, No 3 (2018), Pagination: 350-354Abstract
Women are the backbone of agricultural workforce also and make essential contributions to the agricultural and rural economies in all developing countries. Compared to men, farm women are generally involved in a wider range in crops, livestock and agro-based activities. Women are usually employed in most difficult field operations like sowing, transplanting, weeding, intercultural operations, harvesting, threshing and agro- processing. Though women plays an active part in agricultural activities but they faced lots of constrains. Thus, the present study was conducted to find out participation of farm women of Assam in cultivation of rice and problem faced by them with the following objectives to find out the background characteristic of farm women, to study the participation of farm women in cultivation of rice and to determine the problems faced by the farm women in cultivation of rice. The study was conducted in six districts of Assam. A purposive cum simple random sampling technique was adopted for selecting the respective samples for the study. Altogether 1500 farm women were selected for the present study. Data were collected personally by interview method. The findings reveals that more than fifty per cent of farm women contributed labour independently in areas such as cleaning (55.17%), transplanting (55.08%), harvesting (54.75%), winnowing (51.08%) and drying of grain (50.16%). And the problem faced by the farm women in cultivation of rice were lack of knowledge on plant protection ranked I followed by lack of irrigation facility ranked II, and lack of need based training ranked III.Keywords
Participation, Farm Women, Problems.References
- Bharali, P. (2003). Attitude of tribal farm women of Assam towards improved agricultural technology. M.Sc. Thesis, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat.
- Bordoloi, N. (1997). Participation of rural housewives in rice production operation. J. Agril. Sc. Soc. NE India, 10(2): 217221.
- Borkakoty, B. (1999). A study on involvement of farm women of improverised families in vegetable cultivation in Jorhat district of Assam. M.Sc. Thesis, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat.
- Das, M.D. (1995). Improving the relevance and effectiveness of agricultural extension activities for women farmer, FAO, pp. 3-98.
- Deka, C.R., Das, M.D. and Nath, D. (2010). Involvement of rural women of Assam in horticultural crops for sustainable horticultural development. Indian Psychol. Rev., pp. 254-259.
- Gogoi, M. and Bhowmick, B.C. (2003). Role of Assamese women in vegetable production – a case study. Agric. Extn. Rev., 15(6): 18-20.
- Sinha, H.S.P., Sinha, A.K. and Sinha, K. (1984). A study of attitude of farmers of Chhotanagpur towards soil conservation programme. Indian J. Extn. Edn., 26(3 and 4): 14-16.
- Impact of Agricultural Extension Services on Empowerment of Farm Women of Assam
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1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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Asian Journal of Home Science, Vol 13, No 1 (2018), Pagination: 37-46Abstract
The crucial importance of women’s contribution to food security is widely recognized. Yet they faced with a number of constraints for participation in agriculture such as, there are discrimination in wages, low wages for women, gender based technology, training and extension services, women have limited access to modern technical viz., credit, training and to other facilities etc. (Rath et al., 2007). Therefore, women’s empowerment still become a matter of concern. Empowerment of women is a key to long term overall development of a nation. With the advancement of time, the fact has now been felt that without ensuring women development, the national development cannot be achieved. Thus a study was conducted in three agro-climatic zones of Assam to study “Impact of agricultural extension services on empowerment of farm women of Assam” with following objectives: to study the socio-economic status of farm women and to assess the impact of agricultural extension services on empowerment of farm women. A multistage purposive cum random sampling design was followed. Altogether 1,200 farm women were included as sample of respondents. Data were collected with the help of structured interview schedule 52.60 % of farm women belonged to low socio-economic status. Very negligible percentage of farm women (2.50%) were entitled to have land ownership. Only 0.17 per cent farm women possessed farm implements in their own name. Majority 57.42 per cent of farm women had milch animal of their own. Large majority of the farm women (92.83%) borrowed money from their group account in SHG with nominal interest. Large majority of farm women (81.75%) saved money in between Rs. 1000 to 5000. Majority (66.50%) of farm women spend their income on buying household items. A large majority (90.75%) of farm women had poor access to farm publication followed by educational film (80.33%) and news paper (76.08%). 54.50 per cent of the farm women got farm information regularly through various sources predominately from husband. Majority (65.92%) of farm women had low level of leadership ability. Farm women moved from their houses for social visit, attending bank, post office and block which were rank as I, II and III. Less than fifty per cent of farm women took independent decision in crop harvesting and transporting (33.75%) followed by as maintenance of house (35.25%) and buying food items for family consumption (34.17%). 48.91 per cent farm women had medium level of participation in decision making. It can be conclude that farm women were empowered to some extent due to availing agricultural extension services the status of farm as clientele of the agricultural extension service was not satisfactory.Keywords
Impact, Farm Women, Empowerment.References
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