Empowerment of women in groundnut production system through drudgery reducing technologies

Chitagubbi, G. and Salunke, R. and Huilgol, S. and Morab, A. (2016) Empowerment of women in groundnut production system through drudgery reducing technologies. Journal of Farm Sciences Spl Issue, 29 (5). pp. 593-597.

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Abstract

Woman is the backbone of agricultural task force and they do most tedious and back breaking tasks in agriculture. The need of the hour is to strengthen their participation by empowering them with gender friendly technologies that help in increasing the production and also reduce drudgery for those who carry out the farming operations. To reduce their drudgery and for increasing their work efficiency, need based women friendly improved agriculture technologies were developed and these technologies were tested and refined in women perspective. Hence the study was conducted on Empowerment of women in Ground nut production system through drudgery reducing technology. This study was conducted in Dharwad district of Karnataka state. The study comprised of 150 samples. The results depicted that gender participation and technology usage in Groundnut production system in Pod plucking is completely women exclusive activity wherein cent percent women participation was observed followed by decortications of groundnut and weeding activities performed by 86.67 percent and 70.67 percent women respectively. Bundling and bunching activity is found to be women dominating activity. With regard to Performance evaluation of different types of improved Groundnut Strippers as compared to conventional method the improved groundnut strippers i.e., KVK UAS Dharwad model and CIAE Bhopal model have proved their excellence in pace of work and work output. As pace of work and work output is increased with the usage of KVK, UAS Dharwad model and CIAE Bhopal model, groundnut strippers, and in turn reduced the labour wages and labour needed. The results of study also depicted that all improved groundnut decorticators have proved their excellence in pace of work in comparison with traditional method of deshelling the groundnut. It is statistically proved highly significant on all the parameters studied namely Pace of work, human power used, work output per hour, Drudgery scores and disorder scores. Hence, these technologies are found to be very useful and women friendly and can be recommended for the empowering the farming community.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Decorticator, Disorders, Drudger, Ground nut, Strippers
Author Affiliation: AICRP on Family Resource Management, College of Rural Home Science, Dharwad University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad-580 005, Karnataka, India
Subjects: Plant Production
Divisions: Groundnut
Depositing User: Mr T L Gautham
Date Deposited: 03 Jan 2019 05:36
Last Modified: 03 Jan 2019 05:36
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/15727

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