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 |
Gender imbalance is most concern issue and is one of cause for food insecurity. Detail understanding of the issue is significant in forming any strategy for gender balance. The investigation was carried out with the motive to explore the gender differences in dimensions of food security in farm households. Data was collected from two states of Northeastern region Tripura and Meghalaya. 160 randomly selected farm households were considered for the study where both primary men and women were interviewed separately and individually from same household through pre tested structured schedule, making a sample size of 320 consisting of 160 primary men and 160 primary women. Gender analysis was carried out using the data collected from both men and women in all dimensions of food security and appropriate statistical method was applied. The findings from the present study revealed that there was significant difference between men and women in access and stability dimension of food security. Furthermore significance difference between men and women was also observed in socio-personal and socio-economic attributes. Based on the findings of the present study, suggestion was made, that for any planning and implementation of programme or policy the differences in gender the unique need and issue in individual level in farm household should be looked upon and taken into consideration.
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