Annual Report 2009-2010 - Department of Agriculture & Co-operation

Annual Report 2009-2010
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women in marketing their produce in local
markets, and by organising fairs and
exhibitions. An educational and
development project for women is being
operated in the North Eastern Region at
East Imphal in Manipur state. During the
year 2009-10 (up to 30 November 2009),
1.17 lakh people were imparted
education and training through these
projects.
24.14 The National Cooperative Development
Corporation (NCDC) encourages women's
cooperatives to avail assistance under its various
schemes. A large number of women members
are engaged in cooperatives, engaged in the
areas of fisheries, power looms, garment
manufacturing and knitting units, spinning mills,
fruits and vegetables, marketing and processing,
poultry and service cooperatives, etc. Prominent
among women's cooperatives which have so far
been assisted by the NCDC include programmes
related to textiles (spinning, handloom, power
loom), poultry, fisheries, plantation crops, service
cooperatives and integrated cooperative
development projects, etc.
IX. Agriculture Census: On the recommendation
of the Central Statistical Organisation
(CSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation, New Delhi, the collection of
gender-based data was introduced for the first
time in the Agriculture Census of 1995-96. Since
then, data on this aspect has been collected in
successive censuses, i.e., 2000-01 and 2005-06.
The scope of data collection has been restricted
to the number of operational holdings and the
corresponding operated area by different size
classes of holdings, social groups, gender (male
and female) and types of holdings (individual,
joint, and institutional). The collected information
indicates the participation of women in the
operation and management of agricultural
holdings in the country.
24.15 The number and percentage of female
operational holders as per the Agriculture Census
2000-01 is given in Table 24.2:
Table 24.2: Operational holdings of women in agriculture
Sl.No. Groups Size Operational holders % of female of
Total Female operational holders
1. Marginal 7,54,07,769 89,27,233 11.84
2. Small 2,26,94,772 23,31,744 10.27
3. Semi-medium 1,40,20,972 12,15,725 8.67
4. Medium 65,77,018 4,51,161 6.86
5. Large 12,30,486 64,281 5.22
6. All Size Groups 11,99,31,017 1,29,90,144 10.83
Note: Census was not conducted in Jharkhand state in
2000–01.
X. Policy: The National Policy for Farmers
2007 announced by the Government
envisages the following measures aimed
at women’s empowerment:
i) Asset reforms under land, water, and
livestock for an equitable share to women
farmers.
ii) Better access to inputs and services like