Effect of male migration on role of womwn in agriculture.
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2018
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur
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Migration is both a cause and a consequence of various social, cultural and economic constraints experienced by people in society. A series of structural changes in rural context, such as, polarization of land holding, degradation of natural resources, occurrence of natural calamities such as drought; and poor local employment opportunities accompanied by exponential population growth have contributed to spatial mobility or migration.
It has been found that in incidence of male-migration, women’s work- burden and decision- making role is influenced due to the reason that they are bound to act as ‘de facto heads’ of the family. The investigator therefore decided to study the effect of male-migration on role of women in agriculture with following objectives:
1. To study the socio-personal characteristics of woman respondents;
2. To study the effect of male- migration on physical participation and decision-making role of women in agriculture;
3. To study the relationship between socio-personal characteristics and participation of selected women in agriculture.
To study the effect of male-migration the respondents were divided into control and experimental groups with control households having no migration and experimental with migration of their male counterparts.
The result of the study had striking finding that there was no increased burden physically in agriculture in case of respondents of migrant’s households, the reason being the respondents in case of migration of their husbands were leasing in land and hiring labour for agricultural work. This may be due to their increased financial capacity as the money was flowing from outside due to employment of their husbands at distant destinations. However, role of respondents in decision-making increased considerably due to the reason that they acted as de facto female heads in case of migration of their husbands.
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