National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present investigation was carried out in Sivasagar district of Assam by interviewing 120 farm women selected randomly from 6 villages with an objective to assess profile characteristics and extent of participation of farm women in sericulture. Appropriate statistical was used for analysis and interpretation of data. The study revealed that middle aged farm women were associated with sericulture activities and sericulture contributed around 14% total annual family income. They practiced sericulture along with agriculture and wage earning for earning their livelihood. In case of host plant management majority of the respondents had partial participation in land preparation (70.00%), seed sowing (51.67%), ‘plantation maintenance’ (55.00%), ‘harvesting (55.00). But in case of grainage practices, it was cleared that most of the activities in case of grainage practices were performed by farm women alone. Cleaning of grainage room and equipments’ (90.00%), ‘preservation of seed cocoons’(82.50%), ‘moth emergence, coupling and decoupling’(90.00%), ‘mother moth examination’ (53.33%) and ‘surface sterilization of eggs’ (80.83%) were some important activities with full participation of farm women. Likewise , farm women were involved almost all activities of silk rearing like disinfection of rearing room and equipments, selection of races, season selection, incubation of eggs, black boxing, brushing of chawki worms, maintenance of larva, bed cleaning, handling of moulting larva , collection of matured worms, harvesting of cocoons In overall 62.5 percentage respondents had medium participation in agriculture activities. The concern department should be put sincere efforts for empowerment of farm women through sericulture by providing skill orientated programme to farm women along with creation of common facilities or provide small scale credit to them.
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