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Land rights to women a distant dream
Land rights to women a distant dream, In a one day seminar conducted by Rythu Swarajya Vedika in the city on Thursday, activists, social scientists, women farmers and academicians discussed the need for women’s access to land rights.
Activists rally for property rights for women farmers.
In a one day seminar conducted by Rythu Swarajya Vedika in the city on Thursday, activists, social scientists, women farmers and academicians discussed the need for women’s access to land rights. Eighty one per cent of all women agricultural workers are from scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes but they do not have control over agriculture and opportunity to choose the crops they want to grow.
Bhudevi of Chinayya Adivasi Sangham said that adivasi women have traditional knowledge of growing food crops with less water and the women folk have been safeguarding seeds for ages. Today, adivasis are being driven out and are losing their lands. Echoing the same sentiment, P S Ajay Kumar of AP Vyvasaya Vruthidarula Union (APVVU) said, “The terminology in all land laws are written keeping man in mind. There is a need to sensitise revenue officials on gender sensitivity.” In spite of the Hindu Succession Amendment Act (HSAA), The national Farmers Policy, 2007, Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest dwellers (recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, Women farmers Entitlement Bill, 2011 and Draft Bill on right to homestead, draft National Land Reforms Policy 2013 the plight of women farmers is as it was earlier. Dr Rama Melkote was of the view that corporatisation of agricultural land is pushing the women farmers into backwardness. Widows decry government’s apathy
Several widows from neighbouring districts of Hyderabad attended the seminar and spoke about their difficulties. Sujatha of Medak said that life has become difficult after her husband’s death. Likewise, Venkamma, Bhagya and others also have been facing atrocities from family members and are finding it difficult to get the land registered in their name.
Ashalatha of Rythu Swarajya Vedika said that woman’s access to land can be a powerful tool to fight poverty and hunger and more importantly it gives them the right to choose the crops they want and to live with dignity.
