National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was conducted in Maheswarammandal of Ranga Reddy district, Telangana. A total of 120 farm women who engaged in farming were selected through purposive random sampling technique. The results revealed that majority (53.33%) of the farm women belonged to the age group of young age i.e., 18-35 years were married (86.67%) and 31.67% had completed their high school education and farm women were having below 10 years of work experience (38.33%). Majority (45%) of the farm women were having farming as their family occupation by holding medium level land size (35%) having their own lands (99%) and belonged to small families (84.17%) with less than three members in the family. It was observed that main crops cultivated in the selected locale by the farm women were cotton (87.50 %), cereals (79.17%), vegetables (76.67%) and flowers (66.67%). Less than cent per cent (81.67%) of the farm women were participating regularly in self-help groups by contacting community coordinator (68.33%) as their external personnel and received cent percent of source of information about farming from traditional knowledge and family members.
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