Socio Economic Status of Magar Women in Lama Dada Village: A Case Study in Arkha VDC of Pyuthan District

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dc.contributor.authorMahatara, Madhav
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-14T09:13:56Z
dc.date.available2022-06-14T09:13:56Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractA thesis entitled"Socio Economic Sattus of Magar Women in LamadadaVillage: A Case Study in Arkha VDC of Pyuthan District".The mainobjective of the study is to identify socio-economic condition of Magar peopleof Arkha V.D.C. VDC. Due to the time and other limiting factors to study allthe aspects of Magar was not possible. So, some problems are specified as aform of research question and specific objectives. This study is based ondescriptive analysis cum exploratory research. Both primary and secondarydata have been used in this study and in the case of nature of data bothquantitativeas well as qualitative data were used. The study shows 7(14.56%) families, work as wage laborer for theirlivelihood. There are 2(4.16%) families, who involve in services. Similarly,1(2.08%) families are involved in Business/ Sales and 1(2.08%) families workas carpenter. This table indicates that Magars in the study area are mainlyfarmers. The study shows that all households grow maize, millet, wheat,mustard etc. Paddy products are 24.96 percent, potato and Card mom products12.48 percent. Maize, wheat and millet are grown by all household.Similarlya mustard product is 83.2 percent. Maize and millet is sown in the same land.Similarly wheat and mustard grow in same land and same time. The studyshows that out of 48 households 41.46 percent have 0-5 ropanies Bari whereas29.12 percent have6-10 ropanies, 14.56 percent have 11-15 ropanies, 10.4percent have 16-20 ropanies and 4.16 percent have above ropanies Bari. Asregards the Khet, only 20 percent have their own Khet. Among them 12.48percent have 0-5 ropanies Khet whereas 6.64 percent have 6-10 ropanies.There is no land to all the households in Khet. The study shows that 6 households (13.33 %) have food sufficiency for up tothree months. It is meant that those families have to depend on wage earningfor more than 9 months. The study shows that only 18 households have goodsufficiency of the total households. In case of insufficiency of food grains ofthe total households 4.44 percent get additional support from different serviceseg. Peon, servant and army, 2.22 percent form business/sales and 48.89percent from wage labor. Every household have to depend upon more than thesources of additional resources during insufficiency of food grains. Theresearchshowsthat themajordecisionsrelatedtoamountofmoney tobespent on the purchase of machines and small agricultural implements byrespondents is high. It was found that 83%of the respondents were fullyinvolved inmajordecisionmakingabout themoney tobespent forpurchaseof seeds and 27.3% respondents were partially involved.Only2%of thewomen heads of the family independently take the decision.The role ofwomen respondents in thepurchaseof the farmmachinerywas 100%.Therespondentsweregivenno importance especiallywhendecisionsweremaderegardingbuyingof agriculturalimplements. Thefindingshowedthatwomenoftheseareasweredependentonforestasasourceoffodderandwereboughtthefodderfor their livestock. Women’sroleintheproductionofcropsandharvesting is very important. In the rest of the activities related toincrease toproductionandharvesting, the involvement of women isalmost.Mendominated inmajorityof thefarmdecisions inruralfamilies. Decisionsrelated to buying and selling of land,machines andother agriculturalimplements; improvementsofharvestand livestockmanagementweremainlytakenbyheadof thefamily.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/11211
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Rural Developmenten_US
dc.subjectSocio-Economic statusen_US
dc.subjectMagar womenen_US
dc.subjectDecision-makingen_US
dc.titleSocio Economic Status of Magar Women in Lama Dada Village: A Case Study in Arkha VDC of Pyuthan Districten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Rural Developmenten_US
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