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Working Condition of Women Agricultural Workers:A Study with Reference to Virudhunagar District, Tamilnadu


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1 Post Graduate Department of Commerce, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College (Autonomous), Sivakasi, Tamilnadu, India
2 Department of Commerce, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College (Autonomous), Sivakasi, Tamilnadu, India
     

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The main purpose of the present study is to analyse the working condition of women agricultural workers in Virudhunagar District. Women workers play an inevitable role in agriculture field. In India more than 60 percent of the workers in agriculture sector are women. The problems of agricultural labourers have been sought to be tackled through multi-dimensional course of action viz., improvement of infrastructural facilities, diversification to non-farm activities, skill improvement programmes, financial assistance to promote self-employment, optimising the use of land resources and so on through a variety of rural development, employment generation and poverty alleviation programmes. Therefore, the researcher has taken this topic for research.

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Agricultural Workers, Women Workers, Working Conditions.
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Authors

M. Selvakumar
Post Graduate Department of Commerce, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College (Autonomous), Sivakasi, Tamilnadu, India
K. Jegatheesan
Department of Commerce, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College (Autonomous), Sivakasi, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract


The main purpose of the present study is to analyse the working condition of women agricultural workers in Virudhunagar District. Women workers play an inevitable role in agriculture field. In India more than 60 percent of the workers in agriculture sector are women. The problems of agricultural labourers have been sought to be tackled through multi-dimensional course of action viz., improvement of infrastructural facilities, diversification to non-farm activities, skill improvement programmes, financial assistance to promote self-employment, optimising the use of land resources and so on through a variety of rural development, employment generation and poverty alleviation programmes. Therefore, the researcher has taken this topic for research.

Keywords


Agricultural Workers, Women Workers, Working Conditions.

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