Emerging Trends of Gender in Agriculture: A Case of Uttar Pradesh (Village).

Abstract

The agriculture sector as a whole has developed and emerged immensely by empowering men with technology. But this emergence is not adequate for lifting the status of women labor as an integral part of the industry. In a developing country like India, agriculture contributes 13.5% to the GDP. It provides 55% of employment in the country out of which a good number of the workforce is constituted by women. The role of women in this sector cannot be ignored they comprise 33% of the agriculture labor force and 48% of the self-employed farmers.