Role of Female Labour in Indian Agriculture

Health Hazards for Women in Tobacco Cultivation in Andhra Pradesh, India

“…There are countless studies on women in agriculture—on women’s wages for different operations (Burnette, 2004; Chattopadhyay, 1982; Satham & Goyal, 1974; Krishna Rao, 2006; Leela, 1978; Olusi, 1997; Rajuladevi, 2000), women’s role and participation in farm businesses (Sharma & Dayal, 1993; Duvvury, 1989; Kaur, 1994; Saradamoni, 1987; Sisodia, 1985), the problems of agricultural women workers (Rao, 1989), women’s role in livestock rearing and agriculture, their role in their own farms (Raghuram, 1993; Setti, 1991), conditions in contract farming (Singh, 2003), economic conditions of male vis-à-vis female agricultural labourers (Jose, 1973; Pavithra, 2017; Prakash, 2017), economic empowerment through agriculture (Doss et al, 2012), the health status of women agricultural workers (Raja Meenakshi & Sigamani, 2020), and employment and unemployment of men vis-à-vis women in agriculture (Unni, 1988) and so on. There are several other studies relating to the drudgery of firewood collection (Nagabrahmam & Shreekant, 1983), employment patterns among women and hurdles to their survival (Leela, 1976; Shobha et al, 1998), women in mushroom cultivation (Karwa & Mahendra, 2005), girls working in cotton fields (Ramala Rayalu & Durga Bhavani, 1999), seasonal flexibility in the earnings of women (Oughton, 1993) and so on.…”