Strategy for Drudgery Reduction among Women Farmers
p>The proposed activities of the proposal when achieved will provide additional income which will help to reduce the women farmers’ drudgery. Presently women are involved to earn merger income for their subsistence and this whole process is full of hardships and resultant drudgery. After the proposed project inputs, proper training and capacity building their knowledge as well as risk bearing capacity will increase and they will become capable to earn more income by adopting quality measures. Further special care will be taken to find out such activities in their daily routine as well as work circle which involves drudgery. The steps are as under;
S.No. |
Task |
Role of Woman |
Technology application |
Impact on Drudgery Reduction |
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A |
Agriculture Operations |
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1 |
Sowing (SRI) |
Maintain proper distance and space |
Marker application |
Proper distances maintained in less time and effort |
2 |
Weeding |
Manually using hands and bare feet |
Cono-weeder |
Physical effort is reduced drastically |
3 |
Mulching |
Manual operation by women with bare hand and feet |
shoes and gloves |
It saves vital body parts by protecting |
4 |
Spray of pesticide/insecticide |
Manually mixing with hand and spray by hand |
Spray pump |
Easy to operate more output, saves from harmful inorganic products |
5 |
Irrigating/water management |
Manually through wells and ponds using buckets |
Low cost irrigation application |
Saves lots of time and effort and proper water management |
6 |
Harvesting of crop |
Manually with old instruments |
Improved sickle |
Easy operation using less labour |
B |
Household chores |
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1 |
Routine home work |
Improper light and fuel source makes it hell |
Transparent roof sheet, Solar light |
Low cost, easy to operate, help children study and health enviroment |
2 |
Kitchen |
Rolutine cooking task |
Improved smokeless chullah |
Easy to operate, help in health improvement |
3 |
Fetching water from wells |
Manually fetched |
Ball bearing |
Easy to operate, less physical power |
4 |
Fetching potable water from far away |
Manually fetched |
Hand pump or water cleaning devices |
saves time and energy and improves health |
5 |
NTFP/fuel wood collection |
Manually fetched by head load |
Cycle or small pulling device |
Less energy much more output and more money |
CARD has built in capacity building programmes for training women on drudgery reduction but no inputs are provided under the project budget to directly address it through project inputs. We propose to link them with routine government programmes for the purpose.