Gender Specific Interventions to Mitigate Drudgery While Performing Farm Operations: A Brief Study | Chapter 5 | Current Topics in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 4

 Animal-driven agriculture is giving way to machine-driven agriculture in India. Aside from the tractors and power weeders that farmers utilise, farm women can use farm tools and implements to lessen their work while increasing output. The study's goal was to look into interventions for reducing drudgery and occupational dangers associated with farm activities. In this regard, the current study attempted to introduce a set of 15 drudgery-reducing farm tools and implements, including sapling transplanters, sickles/kurpis, long-handled weeders, three types of harvest bags, ring cutters, finger guards, milking stand cumstools, head load managers, seed cum fertiliser bags, seed placement tubes, cotton pickers, and fertiliser broad casters. Farm women were exposed to an enhanced range of farm tools and implements as part of a capacity-building training programme. A group of 50 farm women were provided the implements to be used by the village secretary, and data was collected from them regarding their awareness of the technologies before and after the capacity building training programmes. Following the end of a crop season, adoption levels were measured. It was discovered that before training, just a portion of the random selected group was aware of the better equipment, whereas after training, the entire group was aware. Around 62% of the sample has used the technology in a moderate way. To increase acceptance, the study recommended teaching farmers on the benefits of drudgery-reduction technology, training them in the use of farm implements, and providing them with easy access. Custom hiring centres may be the answer for storing improved technologies that are acceptable for farm women and allowing them to be employed on a rotational basis.

Author(S) Details

Velivelli Vijaya Lakshmi
Department of RMCS, College of Community Science, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India.

Swetha Kodali
FRM, AICRP-WIA, PJTSAU, PG&RC, India.

Deepika Jangeti
MANAGE, Hyderabad, India.

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Study about Participation of Women in Dairy Farm Management Practices in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh, India | Chapter 01 | Current Topics in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 2

 In India, women play a significant role in dairy farm activities. They conduct the majority of the work in animal husbandry while remaining unnoticed. The purpose of this study is to document their contribution to the dairy industry. The involvement of rural women in dairy farm activities is being investigated in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district. A total of 225 farm women were chosen based on their ability to hold land. According to the findings, women in the small farmer category were more likely to take animals for pregnancy diagnosis (81.33 percent) and post-calving care (77.33 percent ). Women who were landless were more likely to take their animals for grazing on a regular basis (45.33 percent), collect and feed green fodder (68 percent), and provide concentrates to their animals (68 percent) (88 percent ). Small women dairy farmers (89.33 percent) and landless women (86.66 percent) were more likely than medium farm women (56 percent) to feed their animals dry fodder on a regular basis. Landless (76%) and small (69.33%) farm women were more likely than medium (44%) farm women to clean animal sheds on a regular basis. The majority of landless women used disinfectants on a daily basis to clean animal sheds (49.33 percent ). Women in the landless (69.33 percent) and small (65.33 percent) farm women categories spend a lot of time disposing of faeces and composting it. Women in the small (76%) and landless (73.33%) farmer categories were frequently caring for sick animals. In comparison to landless (5.33%) and tiny (1.33%) farm women, a higher percentage of medium (9.33%) women dairy producers were consistently active in animal purchases.

Author(S) Details

A. Anitha
Department of Livestock Production Management, N.T.R College of Veterinary Science, Gannavaram-521 102, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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