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Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur
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ThesisItem Open Access A study on role of farm women in decision making process in vegetable cultivation in jabalpur block of jabalpur district (M.P.)(JNKVV, 2014) Garg, Shiv Sharan; Jaiswal, D.K.ABSTRACT Decision making is the process of consciously choosing courses of action from available alternatives and integration of them for the purpose of achieving the desired goal. It is well known fact that the success of rural development process largely depends and policy maker because of increasing imbalance generation out of development the participation of people at large irrespective of sex. The problem of involving women’s participation in the development process is now catching the attention of planner’s process. Although the legal and constitutional provision for equal statues they have been traditional put in a weak position in Indian society and have subordinate role to play. Thus, women’s participation in decision-making is the prerogative of the males as head of the farm families. It also appeared that any decision taken was strongly influenced by the attitude and opinion of their female partners. Therefore, a proper understanding of the complexity of the decision-making process in rural farm families and ascertaining the role of farm women in the process will help in toning up agricultural, vegetable cultivation, modernization in the country as well as transformation of rural family life. In spite of this fact, women share most of the family responsibilities and perform wide range of duties based research. It can be stated the increasing number of rural women in India are not simply housewives but are in the fact farmers. They play various roles in agricultural operation including vegetable cultivation. Realizing the importance of ascertaining the nature and extent of intensity of role of farm women in decision making related to vegetable operations and looking to the major role that women play in rural area, it has been decided to undertake a study entitled, “A study on role of farm women in decision making process in vegetable cultivation in Jabalpur block of Jabalpur district (M.P.)” with the following specific objectives: 1. To study the profile of selected farm women. 2. To determine the role of farm women in decision making process related to vegetable, cultivation practices. 3. To find out the association between dependent and independent variables. 4. To know the constraints faced by the farm women in decision making process in vegetable cultivation and suggestions to overcome them. The present investigation was conducted in Jabalpur block of Jabalpur district having 208 villages out of the total 10 villages those having highest farm woman were selected randomly for present study. In this study, the selected independent variables were socio personal such as age, annual income, socio-economic-status, extension participation, information seeking behaviour, mass media exposure, cosmopoliteness, economic motivation, innovativeness, management orientation, and market orientation. The dependent variable was extent of decision making. The data were collected with the help of pre-tested interview schedule and converted into scores and then analyzed into frequencies and percentages. Chi-square test was used to observe the association between independent variables of farm women and extent of decision making as dependent variable. The variables of the study were abstracted through past research review and hypotheses were tested in null form. Conclusions: (A) Profile of the selected farm women: Majority of farm women were from middle age group, annual income and socio economic status had moderate level. Majority of the farm women had low extension participation and low information seeking behavior. Most of the farm women possessed medium mass media exposure and were from low cosmopoliteness and were medium economic motivation, innovativeness, management orientation, and market orientation from medium level. (B) Role of farm women in decision making process related to vegetable, cultivation practices : Majority of the farm women (47.27%) had moderate participation in decision making process, as related to vegetable operations. During the research study, it was observed that majority of farm women had always taken decision regarding selection of crop, quantity of seed, sowing time of seed, weeding, use of manures, harvesting, picking and grain storage. They were rarely involved in decision making regarding nursery management, field preparation, selection of variety, irrigation, seed treatment and marketing and use of fertilizers, plant protection measures as it required more scientific knowledge and skill. (C) Association between dependent and independent variables: Age had non-significant association and influenced the role in decision making process related to vegetable operations, whereas annual income socio economic status, extension participation, information seeking behaviour, mass media exposure, cosmopolitness, economic motivation, innovativeness, management orientation, and market orientation had significant association with decision making process of vegetable operations of the farm women. (D) Problems faced by the farm women in decision making process in vegetable cultivation and suggestions for better decision making of farm women: (1) Problems faced by beneficiaries: Male dominance, no knowledge about improved technology and lack of education were the most important problems affecting the decision making process reported by tribal farm women. Other factors in order of sequence were, poor economic status of the family, management of time for farm and home activities, lack of information about the solution to the problem, lack of knowledge, higher time consumption for household works, inability to take decisions, family norms, lack of proper guidance for taking decisions, high cost of farm material, lack of marketing facilities and no permission to take decision due to younger age. (2)Suggestions for better decision making of farm women: The problems of farm women in India are multifarious and multidimensional. These problems can be solved by changing the attitude of family, society and nation towards the women. * * *