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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
A
Agriculture Operations
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
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.

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