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 |
India is an agrarian economy, where women comprise a large part of the total workforce. The agriculture sector employs 80% of all active women in India, women comprise 33% of the agricultural labour force (Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, 2018). A nation with such a large workforce is still deprived of food security, which makes it a matter of utmost concern. A study was conducted in the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh to analyze the food security status among farm women. The study reveals that 78% of the sample population belongs to the food insecure category. Majority of farm women nearly 45 % respondent belongs to moderate food insecurity. About 90.91% of marginal farm women are food insecure. Age showed a negative relation with BMI whereas the other factors such as land, education, expenditure on food per person per month, agricultural and non-agricultural income showed a positive relationship with BMI. However, land-holding and education resulted to be non-significant factors while the rest factors were significant.78.3 % of the variations in BMI was observed due to the above-mentioned factors.
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