Abstract: That woman plays a significant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied fields including in the main crop production, livestock production, horticulture, postharvest operations, agro social forestry, fisheries, etc. is a fact long taken for granted but also long ignored. The nature and extent of women s involvement in agriculture, no doubt, varies greatly from region to region. Even within a region, their involvement varies widely among different ecological sub-zones, farming systems, castes, classes and stages in the family cycle. But regardless of these variations, there is hardly any activity in agricultural production, except plugging in which women are not actively involved. In some of the farm activities like processing and storage, women predominate so strongly that men workers are numerically insignificant. (Agawam 2003) Studies on woman in agriculture conducted in India and other developing and under developed countries all point to the conclusion that woman contribute far more too agriculture production than has generally been acknowledged. Recognition of their crucial role in agriculture should not obscure the fact that farm woman continues to be concerned with their primary function as wives, mother and homemakers.
Present study was conducted in two blocs of district Satna with 120 farm women. There are three measure area of participation of farm women in agricultural activities.
Keywords: crop production, livestock production, horticulture, postharvest operations, agro social forestry, fisheries.
Title: Socio-Economic Status and Participation of Farm Women in Various Agricultural Practices in Satna (M.P.)
Author: Rudrajay Mishra, A.K. Gupta
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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