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Some Examples of appropriate agricultural technologies for women are listed here under.
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Area
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Technologies
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Sowing
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Hand seed drill, hand dibbler, seed-cum-fertilizer drill
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Transplanting
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Paddy transplanter, throwing of seedling in plough furrow in case of finger millet.
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weeding
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Rotary weeder, wheel hand hoe, granular applicator.
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Harvesting
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Improved serrated sickle, mechanical harvesters (different types)
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Threshing
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Tubular maize sheller, paddle thresher for paddy, hand stripper for groundnut decorticator, groundnut pod stripper.
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Post harvest technologies
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Paddle operated seed cleaner and grader, winnower, solar dryers, safe storage bins
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Technologies for
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Small scale dairy, poultry and goat additional employment keeping, bee keeping, fruit and income generation vegetable cultivation and processing, nursery raising, flower growing, fishery, sericulture, mushroom cultivation, cultivation plants of economic value, leaf cups and plate making etc.
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In deciding which new technologies are appropriate for women, the main consideration must be what the women really want? This includes technical as social, cultural and political considerations of a given society. For example, the family structure and its balance of power and authority must be considered as well as any changes that the new or improved technologies might bring. It is not that such changes are undesirable or that they should be avoided, but they have to be anticipated and strategies developed to cope with them. Other concerns include how the new technologies affect women’s time management, how they can be adopted to women’s cultural habits or even body movements and what economic returns they might bring to the women concerned.
Some important guidelines are suggested for selecting appropriate technologies for women. This includes that the technology must provide scope for utilization of skills, talents and resources; meet some of the basic needs in context to socio cultural and ecological background for saving time and energy; eliminate drudgery and improve task performance; provide social benefits at a cost within the reach of the people; prove to be advantageous over existing the method / practice/ tool/ equipment; have scope for replication and regeneration of maximum and more remunerative employment; and be simple in construction, and maintenance.
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