Role of rural women in agriculture production: A case study of Phalgunanda Rural Municipality-6, Angsarang, Panchthar, Nepal

Abstract

The study entitled Role of Rural Women in Agriculture production: A Case Study of Phalgunanda Rural Muncipipality-6, Angsarang , Panchthar, Nepal. In general, the objective of this study has been to analyze the economic status and womenʼs role and contribution in agriculture production and to find out their role in marketing of the agricultural products. The selected area of Panchthar will be the universe of the study. The Phalgunanda rural Municipality ward no-6, Angsarang, Panchthar, Nepal was purposively selected for the study area. Fifty households of respondents were selected randomly for the study. In this study both primary and secondary data were used for the information. Primary data was collected through survey, observation, questionnaire, interviews, focus group, discussion and case study. Similarly secondary data was collected from both published and unpublished documents, records, books, journals, magazines, newspaper, webinars, online sources and relevant materials related to the subject matter. He main crops grown in the study area were paddy, wheat, maize, millet etc. Maize and paddy were grown in summer season and wheat was grown in winter season the data were taken from 50 households. According to the respondent, existing cropping pattern was largely determined by the type of land. The crop cycle involved paddy followed by maize then wheat and millet respectively in the present study, agriculture input have been analyzed in term of seed management use of manure, use of pesticides and use of wage labour. Seed management is one of the most important activities in agricultural production. Distribution of sample household by made of seed management of various crop is presented. While in some households female participants seemed to manage the worker to complete the task on time. The family members are only not enough for the completion of all the agricultural activities. Moreover, contribution of women in production of agriculture is great. It seemed that women play vital role in agriculture to product different crops in the absence of male. And they also have contributed to grow up economic status of the village. Hence an individual household requires other human resource to complete the task on time. In regard to it the findings can be observed.