National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The role and place of farmwomen in agriculture needed sincere recognition and concerted efforts to address various constraints that they are facing, be it drudgery or other gender related issues. The farm women usually use long static postures while performing farm and allied activities, which increase the static muscular effort resulting in high drudgery, physiological cost, low productivity and low work efficiency. Therefore present study was conducted to find out extent and magnitude of the drudgery and gender gap perceived by farmwomen of the District-Sitapur of central U.P. in three areas namely Crop production, post-harvest and livestock management related works. Total 120 respondents i.e. 40 respondents in each three category were selected through purposive random sampling from across 9 villages spread out in three development blocks. Demographic data and activity profile was recorded using pre-structured interview schedule. The variables like time spent (in minutes), frequency of performance (in man days), degree of difficulty and posture adopted was recorded on 4-point continuum score card. Results showed that harvesting and transplanting was perceived to be most drudgery prone operations in crop production sector. Threshing, cleaning and sieving were intense drudgery loaded activities as perceived in post-harvest management related chores. Cutting fodder from field, chaffing and feeding and watering animal with cleaning of shades were recorded as most strenuous in livestock management category.
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