PARTICIPATION OF RURAL WOMEN IN AGRO-BASED ENTERPRISES IN SOUTH GUJARAT

A.J. DHODIA¹*, C.K. TIMBADIA², K.V. GARDHARIYA^3
1Department of Extension Education, NM College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India
²Senior Scientist and Head, ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India
³Department of Extension Education, NM College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India
* Corresponding Author : arpitjack@gmail.com

Received : 06-08-2019     Accepted : 27-08-2019     Published : 30-08-2019
Volume : 11     Issue : 16       Pages : 8908 - 8909
Int J Agr Sci 11.16 (2019):8908-8909

Keywords : Rural women, Participation, Dairying, Vermicomposting, Value addition, Beekeeping
Academic Editor : Dr A. K. Panda, Pankaj Kumar, Rajesh M. Bhuva
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Extension Education, N.M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat, India.
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

Womens role in agricultural operations, animal husbandry and other economically productive activities is very significant. They work as labourers, cultivators doing labour on their own land, as manager of certain aspects of agricultural production by way of labour supervision and participation in postharvest operation. Total five districts of South Gujarat namely Navsari, Surat, The Dang, Tapi and Narmada were selected randomly for the study. Major four enterprises viz. Dairying, Vermicomposting, Value addition/food processing and beekeeping were selected for the study. Looking to these restrictions of selected agro-based enterprise handled by rural women under the study area, the size of respondents in South Gujarat were consider as total and made randomization by lottery method to get 40 sample size for each selected agro-based enterprises. In case of beekeeping 54 name of women enterprise owner were obtain from KVK, NGO, ATMA and Horticulture Department of GoG. As it is known that beekeeping is very sensitive enterprise, hence only 30 active women beekeepers were found in study area of South Gujarat. In a view of this fact the investigator has took all the owners for the present study. So total 150 respondents were selected for the study. Majority of rural women had medium level of participation in agro-based enterprises.

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