TECHNOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT OF TRIBAL WOMEN OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH IN FRUIT PRODUCTION
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2022
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Women play an important role in the production of horticulture crops. Their work includes seed sowing,
cleaning, weeding, sorting, and grading of the crops. Women have gratuitously contributed to their traditional farm
practices and farm activities. They participate in several farm operations with men contributing a significant amount to
their family income. Realizing the importance of the fact the study entitled “Technological Empowerment of Tribal
Women of Arunachal Pradesh in Fruit Production” has been undertaken with the following objectives: To develop
complete understanding of women of Arunachal Pradesh. To assess the existing technological knowledge on fruit
cultivation of respondents in fruit production. To identify existing practices of the respondents in fruit production and
To study the impact of intervention programme on fruit production. The present study was conducted in two parts of
Arunachal Pradesh, namely East Arunachal Pradesh and West Arunachal Pradesh. Seven districts, 3 districts from east
division namely and 4 districts from west division of Arunachal Pradesh were selected for the study. The selected
districts were Papumpare, Lower Subansiri and East Siang from East Arunachal Pradesh. The districts included in West
Arunachal Pradesh were West Siang, West Kameng district, Namsai and Lohit. One block from each district was
selected by simple random sampling method. A total of 21 villages were selected having highest fruit production for
carrying out the present study. Twenty (20) farm women from each village were selected randomly by following the
equal distribution method. A total of 420 respondents from selected 21 villages of the selected zones were taken as
respondents for the present study. The study revealed majority of respondents (75.71%) belonged to middle age group
(33-45) years. More than 42 per cent respondents studied till primary school. Majority (97.14%) of the respondents
were from nuclear family. Majority (68.09%) of the respondents belonged to medium family. Majority (84.05%) of
respondents had possessed mixed type of house. Majority (61.91%) of occupation of respondent’s head of family was
farming. Majority (67.86%) of the respondents were members of one organization. Majority (95.95%) of the
respondents were marginal farmers and possessed agricultural land below 1.00 Hectare. More than half (51.90%) of the
respondents used homemade bio fertilizer on their fruit crops. Majority of the respondents (19.52%) had frequent
contacts with Krishi Vigyan Kendra personnel. More than 39 per cent respondents did not attend any training
programme on fruit production, 37.14 per cent of the respondents had attended training on mushroom cultivation,
Majority of the respondents (92.60%) faced transportation problem in attending training programme. A large majority
(97.14%) of respondents did not read farm magazines on daily basis. Majority of the respondents (56.67%) had
independent participation in cleaning of fruit plant. Majority of respondents (76.90%) took independent decision in
transplanting. Cent per cent of the respondents took independent decision in selection and preparation of food.
Respondents spent on an average 8 hours in farm related activities, lack of government subsidy with mean score 1.86
was the most prominent problem faced by the respondents. It was found that majority of the respondents (66.19%) had
medium level of knowledge on fruit production followed by 17.38 per cent had low and 16.43 had low level of
knowledge (overall). Highest per cent of respondents (18.33%) from East Siang district (D3) belonged to low level of
knowledge on fruit production out of the other 7 districts. Large majority (95.48%) of respondents did not have the
practice of growing of green manure crop to improve the physical and chemical conditions of soil. It was found that
only 13.33 per cent of respondents had ‘good level’ of practice on fruit production (overall). There was a positive and
highly significant relationship between knowledge of the respondents with their practice regarding fruit production.
There was a significant association between age, educational qualification and family size of the respondents with
knowledge level on fruit production. The mean gain in knowledge score after the intervention programme was 12.07
(64.37%).The mean of retention score was 15.63 (44.65%). There was an increase in adoption of practice score 10.20
(34.00%) after 30 days of intervention programme.