Impact of women’s role in agriculture and allied activities on quality of life
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Date
2014
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CCSHAU
Abstract
The study “Impact of women’s role in agriculture and allied activities on quality of life” was
conducted on a sample of 120 respondents drawn from four villages of Hisar district revealed that the
highest percentage of participation of farm women in harvesting and weeding. The majority of farm
women (67.5%) and (63.3%) were jointly performing these operations with other women and more
than 10.0 per cent were independently involved in harvesting operation. The major participation of the
respondents was in cleaning, followed by post harvest processing of produce at household level, drying,
storage and threshing. Majority of the respondents participated more in dung management followed by
care of livestock / poultry, feed of animal, care of sick animal and fodder storage. A total of 758
hours/year were spending in agriculture activities accounting to 94.75 mandays in a year. Out of which
63.75 in harvesting and 26.5 was in weeding and 175 hours/year were spent accounting to 21.8
mandays in a year on post harvest mandays. It revealed that 75 per cent of the respondents contribute
more than 20001 Rs. In a year followed by those who contributed between 15001 to 2000/Rs.
Regarding Perception of rural women towards quality of life, housing, health, economic, social,
recreational, decision making and education aspects perceived as good followed by very good and not
good. Regarding Satisfaction of rural women for quality of life, housing, health, decision making and
education aspects respondents were satisfied with these aspects where as regard to economic , social
and recreational aspects respondents were least satisfied. Regarding Impact of role of women in
agriculture and allied activities on quality of life, A positive impact of increase in all the economic
aspects, health aspects, educational aspects, agricultural aspects, and animal husbandry was noticed. In
all the aspects of luxury and recreational; personality aspects, material possession aspects and capacity
building aspects, no change was observed. The perception, satisfaction and impact on quality of life
was influenced by age, education, income landholding, family educational status, economic motivation,
change proneness and decision making.
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Participation, Biological phenomena, Economic systems, Economics, Manpower, Livestock, Harvesting, Land resources, Animal husbandry, Wood