Role of Women and Employment in Agriculture Sector

In India, 48.53% of the total population is female and 51.47% is male, while in Maharashtra, 48.17% of the total population is female and 51.83% is male. If we consider the agricultural laborers, 1.72 crore agricultural laborers in 1901, 2.40 crore agricultural laborers in 1911, 1.96 crore agricultural laborers in 1921, 2.21 crore agricultural laborers in 1931, 2.75 crore agricultural laborers in 1951, 3.15 crore agricultural laborers in 1971, 4.75 crore agricultural laborers in 1981. , there were 7.50 crore farm laborers in 1991, 8.30 crore farm laborers in 2001, 11.43 crore farm laborers in 2011. A review of the farm labor force over 110 years shows that the number of farm laborers has continued to increase, only to see a decline in 1921, as epidemics and disease decimated the population during that decade. In 2013-14, share of agriculture sector was 17% in Lakh, while employment was nearly 50%. The share of agricultural exports in total exports was 18.5% in 1990-91 and 14.2% in 2014-15. As the mainstay of rural economy is mainly agriculture, rural development is dependent on agricultural development. Agriculture sector needs to be developed for sustainable village development. Also, just as rural development is dependent on agricultural development; agricultural development is also dependent on many factors. The main factor in this is labor. The contribution of agricultural workers, especially women workers, in agricultural development is significant. Women's participation in agriculture is evident since ancient times, the place of women in the rural agrarian economy is very important. Women in the rural areas are the mainstay of agriculture and without their cooperation the agriculture sector cannot be completed. Basically, women have invented the agricultural business and since ancient times, the proportion of women in the agricultural business is high. They work as farmers and farm laborers in agriculture, and also do domestic work, which means that women in rural areas work almost 16 hours a day. Women in rural areas do household work such as sowing, harvesting, threshing etc. in agricultural work