Involvement of Tribal Farm Women in Agricultural Development in Tripura Involvement of Tribal Farm Women in Agricultural Development in Tripura
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Abstract
The study was conducted to identify the involvement of tribal women in agriculture development in
Tripura. The study was conducted in West Tripura district of Tripura during April to Aug, 2016.
Multistage purposive cum stratified random sampling design was used. 1500 rural women were
included as sample of respondents for the study. The study reveals that more than 50% tribal farm
women participated jointly with family members in harvesting, compost making, application of manure,
storing of harvested crops, collection of seeds and cleaning of harvested crops for marketing, seed
cleaning, intercultural operations, seed storage and grading of harvested crop for marketing . In
addition to this, a large percentage of tribal farm women did not contributed labour at all in application
of pesticides, marketing, land preparation, application of fertilizer, seed treatment and fencing. It was
concluded from the study that majority of tribal women directly involved in agricultural activity but
there was some gender differentiation activity was followed.
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