Agriculture, for decades, had been associated with the production of basic
food crops. Agriculture is the backbone of a country's economic system.
Agricultural planning and development are crucial to human survival, but they
usually proceed without any consideration of the importance of gender issues at
the production level. Although women have long been prime movers in agriculture,
their contribution to the world's food supply has been largely ignored, and
consequently their stake in development has been undermined. Control, access
and ownership of assets and resources required for agriculture are a critical
component for well-being of households and country. A crucial first step toward
understanding the gender dimensions of asset and resource ownership and
control is acquiring detailed gender-disaggregated information.Though many
agricultural development programmes are taking care to reduce gender
inequalities and provide equal opportunities to both men and women the gaps are
not being reduced completely. Therefore still more interventions are to be taken up
by some government and NGO's to reduce the differences between gender in
agriculture. |