Abstract: The study was conducted in purposively selected, districts Fatehabad and Sirsa of Haryana, during 2014-15 in order to study the labour use pattern and inter gender work participation in cotton cultivation. Results of the study revealed that majority of the respondents (77.0%) were from upper caste, more than half of the female respondents (55.5%) were illiterate, and male respondents (59.0%) were educated upto metric/higher secondary level. 93.0 per cent of female respondents and (84.0%) male respondents had farming as their main occupation, had joint medium sized families, 27.5 per cent of respondents were having irrigated land holding between 2.5 to 5 acres followed by more than 15 acres of land (18.0%), up to 2 acres of land taken on lease by 12.5 per cent of respondents. Cotton cultivated on 2.5 to 5 acres of land and up to 2 acres of land. Cent percent participation of male respondents were in land preparation, sowing, mechanical weeding, plant protection, fumigation and marketing.Majority of the female respondents were involved in manual weeding, picking of bolls, stalk harvesting and storage. Similar pattern of work participation of other family members was observed in almost all the activities. Majority of the respondents employed male labourers for sowing, plant protection and marketing.
Keywords: Inter gender, labor use, cuttun cultivation, work participation.
Title: Inter Gender Work Participation In Cotton Cultivation
Author: Reeta Devi Yadav, Dr. Rita Goel, Dr. Beena Yadav
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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