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Women farmers demand recognition from govt at 2-day meet -Jitendra

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Governments in India define farmers as those who own land, which is usually not the case with women

Women farmers from six states demanded a comprehensive agriculture policy that would recognise them and offer relief and compensation to the kin of male farmers who had commit suicide, at a recent event in the national capital.

Around 60 women farmers from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Punjab took part in a two-day conclave in New Delhi, organised by the Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manach (Makam), an advocacy group campaigning for the rights of women farmers.

The state governments’ criteria on who is a farmer is exclusive and is being used to manipulate farmers suicide identification data, field studies by Makam have claimed.

A lot of women are engaged in farming in India but are not categorised as farmers since land titles are usually held by men. ‘Women farmers’ in India are usually widows, who take up farming to support their children after the deaths of their farmer husbands.

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