Improved farm tools and equipment for women workers for increased productivity and reduced drudgery
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Gender Technology and Development v. 10, no. 2, p. 229-244Summary: Apart from their traditional concerns which are associated with specific domestic tasks farm women play an important role in Indian agriculture. Banerjee (2001) reported that women constitute 32 percent of the labor force in the preparatory work before cultivation, 76 percent for sowing seeds, 90 percent for transplanting, 82 percent in transporting crops from the fields, 100 percent in traditional food processing and 69 percent in dairying at the national level. As per the census of 2001 the share of the women labor force in agriculture increased from 35.1 percent in 1991 to 39 percent in 2001. Despite their pivotal role in agriculture, most of the women are using age-old traditional tools and equipment (hand hoe khurpa and plain sickle) till date. Though various research organizations and state agricultural universities in the country have done considerable work on design and development of improved farm tools and equipment...
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Apart from their traditional concerns which are associated with specific domestic tasks farm women play an important role in Indian agriculture. Banerjee (2001) reported that women constitute 32 percent of the labor force in the preparatory work before cultivation, 76 percent for sowing seeds, 90 percent for transplanting, 82 percent in transporting crops from the fields, 100 percent in traditional food processing and 69 percent in dairying at the national level. As per the census of 2001 the share of the women labor force in agriculture increased from 35.1 percent in 1991 to 39 percent in 2001. Despite their pivotal role in agriculture, most of the women are using age-old traditional tools and equipment (hand hoe khurpa and plain sickle) till date. Though various research organizations and state agricultural universities in the country have done considerable work on design and development of improved farm tools and equipment...
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Carelia Juarez
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