A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF EMPOWERMENT OF FARM WOMEN IN EASTERN DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA
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2016-10-20
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
The present study wascarried out to find out theextent of empowerment
of farm women in Eastern Dry Zone of Karnataka. Thirty villageswere
selected from ten taluks in five districts of Eastern Dry Zone of
Karnataka.Six respondents were selected from each village by applying
simple random technique. Totally180 respondents were selected for the
study. Data were collected using pre-tested interview schedule through
personal interview method. Standardized scale to measure empowerment
was developed and used in the study.The major findings about extent of
farm women empowerment were, more than half (52.22 %) of the farm
women were under medium level of empowerment, 25.56 per cent under
high and 22.22 per cent of them were under low level of
empowerment.Age, education, farming experience, land holding,
participation in training, extension participation, exposure to print and
electronic media, organizational participation, extension contact,
scientific orientation, achievement motivation, level of aspiration and
economic motivation was found to have significant relationship with
extent of empowerment.Chi-square value of age and education was10.89
and 15.45 respectively, showing a significant association between
empowerment of farm women.Variables like land holding, participation in
training, extension participation, exposure to print and electronic media,
organizational participation and extension contact were also significantly
associated with the empowerment level.An observation of rank ordering
of the direct effect of independent variables on the empowerment
revealed that,extension participation (0.209), economic motivation
(0.207), organizational participation (0.177), scientific orientation (0.167)
and level of aspiration (0.117) had the greatest direct effect occupying
first five ranks in the order.The major constraints faced by farm women
were neglect of financialcontributions by family, lack of communication
skills and lack of women doctors in Primary Health Centre.Providing
education, assured economic security, presence of female doctors in
PHCsand establishing sustainable income generating activitieswere some
of the suggestions made by farm women.
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