Involvement of Women in Agricultural Production

Abstract

The title of thesis is Involvement Of Women In Agricultural Production, A Case Study of Satakhani VDC, Surkhet District. The objectives of the study is to objective to assess the socio-economic status of the respondents. To find out the women involvement in agriculture production and to find out the problems of agricultural production in the study area. The study area is Satakhani-5, Surkhet district. The population of the study has been selected as all the women of the study area who are involving in agricultural production. All the women of the study who are involving in agriculture were taken by using census method. The structure interview schedule has been used as the tool for data collection. The interview schedule has been divided into two parts. The study found that 7.82 percent respondents belonged to the age group less than 20 years and 15.65 percent of them belonged to 36-40 years group in the study area. Similarly, 2.60 percent of respondents had up to three members in their family. In the study area, 66.95 percent of respondents were illiterate whereas 33.5 percent of respondents were literate. In the study, 2.60 percent of the respondents had one child whereas 53.13 percent respondents had three children with them. Likewise, 54.78 percent respondents were regularly involved in agricultural activities in the study area. All the respondents involved in production in maze, similar number of respondents are involved in paddy, 97.39 percent respondents used to produce white as their income source. In the study area, there were problems like low prices of farm produce, lack of roads, inadequate improved/high yielding seedlings, high cost of fertilizers/late supply, frequent outbreak of pests/diseases, poor productivity of land in the study area. The study concluded that there were problems like lack of land for fishery, no capital with them to run fishery and problems of low prize of their products (fish) in the study area. The study concluded that the problems were existed in every activities of agricultural production.