Women in Agriculture

Lesson 7 : Activities of Women in Agriculture & Allied Sectors

Rural Production

Women in rural India generate income in various ways. Women are highly involved in processing of the NTFP, particularly in small-scale enterprises. This includes basket, broom, rope making, tasar silk cocoon rearing, lac cultivation, oil extraction, and bamboo works, etc. Women constitute 51% of the total employed in forest-based small-scale enterprises.

Among the scheduled-caste weavers in Orissa, men collect grass for basket making while women cure it and make the basket. Men and women are equally involved in collection, processing and marketing of forest products such as grass, bamboo and resin.