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Women farmers face gender inequality
The State government is mulling introducing schemes for women farmers to bring to educate them on the latest technologies in farming. The government has also planned to train women Self-help groups in late agriculture technologies.
Hyderabad: The State government is mulling introducing schemes for women farmers to bring to educate them on the latest technologies in farming. The government has also planned to train women Self-help groups in late agriculture technologies.
According to a study by Gramya Resource Centre for Women on “Women Farmers-Land Ownerships and Access to agriculture schemes” in Adilabad, Medak, Nalgonda and Khammam, the decision-making in 80 per cent of households with regard to choice of crops, accessing seeds, taking loans, marketing and spending the income generated was still in the hands of men.
The study also said the women farmers practising agriculture in the conventional way stood marginalised with the introduction of new technologies and seed varieties as they would not have access to information. There are a high number of landless women and daily wage labourers and a very few women cultivators as compared to men.
The study also found that in some cases, women, who inherited land after their husband’s death, were denied the same. A few women got land through the government’s distribution scheme. “Some women inherited land from their parents and some received it as a gift on their wedding.
Others got a part of their husband’s land registered in their name to avail government schemes, while quite a few men purchased land and registered it in the names of their spouses to secure benefit from government schemes,” said Ashalatha.
It was found in the study that the government’s agricultural extension services did not reach to a majority of the women farmers. A woman farmer from Medak district, Suvarna said she was farming for a living. “We grow barley, maize, etc. Many of the schemes implemented by the government do not reach us.
We request the government to provide all schemes related to women and agriculture to the women living in the rural areas, so that we can work and grow more crops,” said Suvarna.
When asked about it, a senior officer of the Agriculture Department, speaking on condition of anonymity said that the government was examining the findings of the report and would come up with suitable solutions soon. He also said the government would provide legal aid to women farmers, if need be.
