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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s Quiet Women Farmers Slip Into Crisis -Khabar Lahariya & Abheet S Sethi

India’s Quiet Women Farmers Slip Into Crisis -Khabar Lahariya & Abheet S Sethi

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published Published on Mar 10, 2015   modified Modified on Mar 10, 2015
-IndiaSpend.com

Chitrakoot (UP)/ Kota (Rajasthan)/ Mumbai: Slight and dark, Shyampati, 30, leaned against a house made fragile from unseasonal rain, and talked animatedly about life as a farmer, labourer, goat-herder, mother of four, main wage-earner and full-time housewife.

Here in her rain-washed, poor village in western Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district-and across the northern plains and southern plateau-Shyampati (she uses only one name) represents a hidden Indian demographic: the Indian women farmer, almost never publicly acknowledged, reviled by superstition and patriarchy, and increasingly troubled.

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IndiaSpend.com, 7 March, 2015, http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/indias-quiet-women-farmers-slip-into-crisis-90104


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