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Tribal Rights/ Forest Rights | Community farming boon for Odisha tribal women -Hemanta Kumar Pradhan

Community farming boon for Odisha tribal women -Hemanta Kumar Pradhan

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published Published on Jul 15, 2014   modified Modified on Jul 15, 2014
-The Pioneer


Bhubaneswar: Community farming has shown a way of livelihood for women in the State in general and tribal districts in particular. The model in agriculture sector has made the women folk more confident and self-reliant than ever before.

Community farming is also called as group farming where farmers cultivate crops in groups. In this form of farming, a group of people give a share for the expenditure and work unitedly. When the crops are ready, it is sold in markets and the money is distributed among each member.

The model of agriculture has been experimented successfully and subsequently implemented in the tribal areas of the State which yielded a good result.

With a small land holding in hilly areas, women didn't want to do farming by spending money and labour. When the Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD), an NGO, persuaded the women to do community farming in a group combining their small land holdings and workforce, the women folk took an initiative and succeeded in the field.

The organisation chose women for implementation of the model because women, according to the 2011 Census, constitute a major proportion of agricultural workforce in Odisha (37 per cent) out of total 62 per cent of State's population active in agriculture sector. As per the figures mentioned in the Agriculture Census of India, out of the total female agricultural workforce in the State, 74.7 per cent belong to the marginal category with a total of 41.2 per cent of land holdings.

Several women group from the tribal dominated districts got benefit from the farming. The living standard has gone up following the economic condition of the women enhanced after selling agricultural produce in the market.The Pioneer team came across a few successful women farmers of different tribal dominated districts to know about their views on community farming.

The Pioneer, 14 July, 2014, http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/community-farming-boon-
for-odisha-tribal-women.html


The Pioneer, 14 July, 2014, http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/community-farming-boon-for-odisha-tribal-women.html


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