Abstract:
The study was conducted in three districts of Kashmir valley, by giving equal representation to all the three parts of Kashmir valley. Multi-stage random sampling technique was utilized to get a sample of 439 households of 24 villages of 6 different community development blocks of the three different districts of the valley namely Shopian, Budgam and Kupwara. The reference period of the study was 2013-2014. The data was collected with the help of an open ended well-structured questionnaire. From the analysis of the data it has been found that women in all the three districts of the valley participate in almost all the activities related to vegetable cultivation and work shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts and even with the labour force employed and work more than eight hours on an average. Women work from dawn to dusk in the vegetable patches and contribute to the family income. But from the study it was concluded that, though women work hard and hard and work much hours in the farm activities, but their contribution in the production is very less. The reason for this as concluded in this study that mostly the vegetable is not cultivated in large scale and women are disguisedly engaged in the vegetable cultivation.
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9-16
DOI:
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Published:
Journal: International Journal of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Year: 2014