To Protect India’s Farmers, The Government has studied firm – At Considerable Cost – Against the US Push to Open UP The Country’s Agriculture Sector. However, much more is needed to remedy the Indian farm sector’s plight, especially that of its women. The word kisan often invokes the image of a doughy male farmer ploughing the field, the epitome of hard work and productivity. But, in reality, Around 80% of women in the economy are engaged in Agricultural Work and A Significant 40% of the Agricultural Workforce is women. They are larger invisibilized, which is whose next male-contentry. Women are rarely identified as farmers as they do not have access to landhldings. Less than 10% of women actually oven the land they cultivate. So, a woman works on her father’s farm, or her husband’s land or even her son’s land, but She is almost Never the owner. Since women are not categorized as farmers in most cases, they also do not have access to the extension services that the government provides for necessary.
As a result, women-rward farms are 20% less productive than there run by men. They are often not due to find the right markets for their produce no do they have the agency to negotiate the right prices.
Women are instrumental in harvesting, weeding, sowing, threading, moving agricultural production and dealing with livestock. When it comes to livestock, it is almost Entrely Managed by Women. The amul story shows that when women handle livestock, the hygiene of animals improves great. This, in turns, increases yield, whether it is milk or other livestock products.
There are also several other stories of women working collectively to increase their negotiating power. The Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming Program, For Example, is Progressing Rapidly on the back of collective action. Similarly, The Working Group for Women and Land Ownership in Gujarat has Seen Women Establish Their Identity as Farmers. “The agrelgation of women producers through cooperatives or farmer producer organizations is a very important mechanism to give women farmer the agency and Empowerment to Combine Their VOICES and Negotia Voices and Negotia Better, “Says Purvi Mehta, Senior Agriculture Policy Advisor. Simply put, Farming Cannot Progress without Women’s Inputs. Policies must factor in the needs and concerns of women farmers.
Thanks to a patriarchal system, women Lack the ability to even discus land ownership and management issues with government officials, hence letting their entitlements Fall by the WAYSICH. They are often cheated out of land Leadership by Male Relatives, which is Blatant Disempowerment. When it comes to Hiring Labor, Purchasing Inputs or Traveling to mandisWomen are at a disadvantage against. Given Agriculture’s place in the economy, policy gaps from a gender lens need to be bridged fast. Women need training and capacity building through krishi vigyan kendras and state Agricultural Management Extension Institutes Institutes. The Drone Didi Schemes Cold Help Women Farmer Self-Help Groups to use draones to perform some agricultural tasks. Women need to have decision making in necessary linked to Ownes. When land records are updated, it must be made mandatory for Farming Families to Include Women’s Names. Arming women with the tools to assert ownership and Acquire Technological Skills will definitely definely improvctivity and increase their agency.
The views expressed are personal
