tailieunhanh - Women and the Indian sericulture industry

For the development of any nation, the females play a significant role. In India, the females comprise of the total population. The majority of Indian females reside in the rural areas of our country. The female population of the rural India is the backbone of the rural economy and major drivers in the agriculture sector. They play an important role in poultry farming, goat farming, apiculture and sericulture. The traits required for the workers in the agriculture sectors are inherent in the Indian female population. The qualities of hardwork, concentration, courage, devotion and dedication are ingrained in the women folk of India. Therefore, the agriculture related work is easily done by women. In the sericulture sector, women form a major working force. Sericulture being one of the most important cottage industries can provide employment for the Indian women. It is a labour intensive agro industry and can provide livelihood support to the unemployed rural women. Sericulture can also be taken up as an additional source of income for the people employed in other sectors. It needs low capital investment and greater return. The management and look after is also very simple and less time consuming. It utilizes little space hence, it can provide employment not only to the agriculturists but, also to the landless people and the labourers. Sericulture is the conscious mass-scale rearing of silk producing organisms to obtain silk. | 2019 8 5 857-871 EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 05 2019 Journal homepage http Review Article https Women and the Indian Sericulture Industry Rubia Bukhari1 Himpreet Kour2 and Abdul Aziz3 Jhvisioii of Sericulture Sher-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences Technology of Jammu Main Campus Chatha Jammu Jammu KashmirJndia-180009 2Department of Animal Husbandry Jammu Kashmir India-180001 Department of Sericulture Poonch Campus University of Jammu India-185101 Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Women Sericulture Employment Agriculture Contribution Article Info Accepted 10 April 2019 Available Online 10 May 2019 For the development of any nation the females play a significant role. In India the females comprise of the total population. The majority of Indian females reside in the rural areas of our country. The female population of the rural India is the backbone of the rural economy and major drivers in the agriculture sector. They play an important role in poultry farming goat farming apiculture and sericulture. The traits required for the workers in the agriculture sectors are inherent in the Indian female population. The qualities of hardwork concentration courage devotion and dedication are ingrained in the women folk of India. Therefore the agriculture related work is easily done by women. In the sericulture sector women form a major working force. Sericulture being one of the most important cottage industries can provide employment for the Indian women. It is a labour intensive agro industry and can provide livelihood support to the unemployed rural women. Sericulture can also be taken up as an additional source of income for the people employed in other sectors. It needs low capital investment and greater return. The management and look after is also very simple and less time