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Type : Other Article

TIME DEVOTION BY FARMERS AND THEIRE FAMILIES IN CROP PRODUCTION

Manju Suman

Abstract

Women s role in agriculture is a multiple one in which she is an integral part of a Cropping and livestock production system on the small farm but generally a more laborer on larger farms or in agro-industry. Women have played and continue to play a key role in the conservation of basis life support systems such as land, water, flora and fauna. They have protected the health of the soil through organic recycling and promoted crop security through the maintained varietal diversity and genetic resistance. The women produce about half the world food, their work remains for the most part invisible. This is a especially true in the livestock sector. As small animal and poultry production for family use or for the market is usually women work. The major responsibility for the care and feeding of larger animals generally rests with women. Sericulture is mainly the work of women. Yet they are mostly uncounted in production and employment statistics.

Keyword: Cropping and Livestock Production System, Conservation, Crop Security, Sericulture.

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