Women in Agriculture

Lesson 7 : Activities of Women in Agriculture & Allied Sectors

Food Security

Women's key role in the production of major grains and minor millets illustrates their invaluable contribution to the food security. In addition, women play a crucial role in ensuring supply of food as food vendors and post-harvest processors of livestock and fishery products. As major buyers of family food and meal-makers, women ensure adequate food security. As primary providers of nutrition to the young children, women are the major decision-makers in ensuring nutrition to the next generation.

Participation of Men and Women in different activities

Activities	Women	Men
Household Activities	Cooking (grinding, cutting preparing food etc)	-
	Sweeping, washing clothes & utensils	-
	Fetching water	-
	Collecting water	-
	Making cow dung- cakes	-
Child care	Feeding children	-
	Taking care of children	-
Agricultural Activities	Digging	Ploughing ,digging
	-	Irrigation of fields
	Harvesting crops	Harvesting crops
	Sowing	Sowing
	Weeding	-
	Cutting grass from fields	-
	Groundnut picking	-
	Husking/winnowing	-
	Vegetable plucking	Vegetable plucking
	-	Fertilizing
Selling	Sells vegetables, groundnuts , cereals , sometimes sells fire wood	Marketing of bulk quantities
Dairying	Collection of fodder, Feeding cattle, milking & bathing the cattle sometimes	Cattle feeding ,milking bathing cattle
	Cleaning of cattle shed	Cleaning of cattle shed sometimes