Women in Agriculture

Lesson 8 : Categorisation of Women in Agriculture

Introduction

Most of the women perform various types of work for their livelihood, and agriculture is considered as the biggest unorganized sector where large number of rural women take part actively. While women have always played a key role in agricultural production, their importance both as workers and as managers of farms has been growing, as an increasing number of men move to non-farm jobs. In rural India, agriculture and allied industrial sectors employ as much as 90percent of the total female labour.