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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Make farming gender sensitive, and frame schemes keeping women farmers in mind, say NGOs in Gujarat -Ritu Sharma

Make farming gender sensitive, and frame schemes keeping women farmers in mind, say NGOs in Gujarat -Ritu Sharma

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published Published on Oct 25, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 25, 2018
-The Indian Express

The women organisations also demanded a gender-based segregated data for women and men farmers.

Ahmedabad:
An umbrella group of more than 40 NGOs on Tuesday submitted a 12-point representation to the state government demanding agricultural schemes to be more women farmer sensitive. The Working Group for Women and Land Ownership (WGWLO) has demanded a special and separate budgetary provision for women farmers, besides seeking agricultural schemes that are designed from women farmers’ perspective to not only ensure gender equity but also enhance higher yield in agriculture.

“At present most of the agriculture schemes can be availed only by land owners. Women do not have land in their names and even though they are the ones contributing towards 65-70 per cent of agriculture-related work. In the context of increasing feminisation of agriculture, they can not access benefits of agriculture schemes,” Shipla Vasavada, convener WGWLO said, demanding de-linking of agriculture schemes to land ownership status.

The women organisations also demanded a gender-based segregated data for women and men farmers.

“This will not only help to know the exact number of women farmers availing benefits under agriculture schemes but also enable future strategies related to agriculture,” they said. At present, there is no system for having gender-segregated data either in the application form or in the benefits of schemes availed. As per Census of 2011, 40 per cent of women in the country are farm labourers where woman farm labourers comprise 65 per cent of total farm labourers.

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The Indian Express, 24 October, 2018, https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/make-farming-gender-sensitive-and-frame-schemes-keeping-women-farmers-in-mindsay-gujarats-ngo5415286/


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