Women in agriculture make up a considerable portion of the Indian rural population. According to the latest census, 38 percent of all agricultural labourers, 20 percent of cultivators and 29 percent of all livestock and forestry workers are women. A majority of women workers in rural areas are engaged in agriculture and constitute a vast human resource. The farm operations of women include application of manure, sowing, planting irrigating field, fertilizer application, plant protection, weeding, thinning, harvesting, hulling, winnowing, clearing storing grains, feeding the cattle, taking care of livestock, particularly dairy cattle, looking after poultry, kitchen gardening, marketing of vegetables. etc. and women’s wage labour contributes significantly in tea and coffee plantations. This study main aims at understanding the development and rights of Indian women agricultural labourers.

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