A STUDY ON FARM WOMEN'S CONTRIBUTION TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN EAST DISTRICT OF SIKKIM STATE
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1987
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AAU, Anand
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In family farm the greater portion of farm labour is supplied by the farmer, his wife and other members of family reducing considerably the cash costs of cultivation. The closest association of the farmer is his wife, sharing with her man the arduous burden of farm work in addition to her major responsibility as home maker, by helping regularly in all other farm operations such as weeding, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, irrigating and carrying out the produce and fodder from the field to home as well as selling of farm products and working as farm hired labourer in other’s field. Thus, the farm women play an important role in agriculture and could play an even more important role through the transfer of improved technology, needs more recognisation. On route to achieve this, is the implementation of policies that will maximise their contribution. Therefore, the present study which was intended to know the extent of contribution in various activities of agricultural and household operation by farm women, their influence in decision taken in agriculture, constraints and their opinions, occupies an important place.
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Extension Education, Agriculture, A Study