Gender role analysis of pulse production: a study from Uttar Pradesh
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59797/jfl.v23i3&4.1397Keywords:
Gender, Post harvest handling, Pulse production, Uttar PradeshAbstract
The study was conducted in Kanpur Dehat and Fatehpur districts of Uttar Pradesh during 2008-09. A total of 180 women farmers were sampled from six villages from the selected districts. A pretested interview schedule was utilized to collect the data. The average sole participation of the farmers and farm women was about 24 and 35 percent, respectively in pulse production and post harvest handling combined. The farm women were primarily performing activities like seed treatment, seed cleaning, cleaning of the fields prior to sowing and harvesting in about 68, 66, 45 and 41 percent of the households, respectively. While activities like spraying of insecticides, field preparation and fertilizer application were performed primarily by the male farmers as reported by 75, 72, and 52 percent of the respondents, respectively. Joint participation was observed by 34, 34, 32 and 31 percent of the sampled farm women in activities like fertilizer application, construction and repair of irrigation channels, seed treatment and sowing of seed, respectively among the sampled farm households. In majority of the households, post harvest operations like cleaning of grains after harvesting (91%), value addition (89%), processing (85%), winnowing (67%) and drying of produce (53%), were performed by farm women. Marketing was performed by the male farmers in 64 percent of the households. Storage of produce was carried out jointly in majority of the households (45%).
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