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VOL. 6, ISSUE 4 (2021)
Usage pattern and work profile in dung collection among rural women
Authors
Sarita Devi, Manju Mehta
Abstract
The rural women play an important role in all types of household, farm and allied activities but were deprived from most of the privileges of life. There is no change in involvement pattern of women in household and animal husbandry activities in respect to change in season. Dung is the property of women by a complicated scheme of shares depending on who owns the animals. Cow dung is deposited in a circular shape because of soft texture and which gives dung patches their alternate names of cow pies and cow pats. The study was conducted in randomly selected one block I of Hisar district of Haryana state. From the selected block I, Dabra village was randomly selected as the locale of the study. Ninety households were selected randomly and female head of the household was the sample of the study. Mostly women belonged to middle age belonged to general category were illiterate and maximum of them farming was family occupation having nuclear family with medium size family. They collected dung twice a day. Majority of respondents were having buffalo which was kept bada of size upto 100sq.m.dung was collected by home maker and other female twice a day. They prepared dung cake to save money and were using Tasla & Indi for dung collection, they carried 10-20 kg dung per trip distance around 750 mt for dung transportation and spending 1-2 hr in dung collection activity.
Pages:07-13
How to cite this article:
Sarita Devi, Manju Mehta "Usage pattern and work profile in dung collection among rural women ". International Journal of Advanced Educational Research, Vol 6, Issue 4, 2021, Pages 07-13
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