Floriculture – a Booming Sector for Women Entrepreneurs in Rural India

Handloom industry is one of Economic generation organization for India because people in india give more preference to their traditional culture. The handloom industry is next after the agriculture for providing livelywood for the people. The government has given the importance to the industry by promoting handloom products and special intrest in export of the handloom products.The Office of the Development Commissioner for Handlooms has been implementing a various units through out the India to provide the job opportunity to the weavers.

1) It is one of the very few crops entering world trade entirely on a leaf basis.

Indian groups have adopted agriculture. The ability to grow crops has a huge implication for the

So why are women farmers still invisible? Why has the agricultural culture stayed in a gender biased era, when it’s 2015?

Women in Sub-Saharan African should work more in that there is an increase in the number of women participating in agriculture, as most men have resorted to work in non- agricultural activities. This entails that women should venture into men’s cash crop farming too so that they earn more income in order tothat can change their economic situation.

Farming is a big thing in today’s world and in a lot of countries. Farming is a big part of people’s way to get food and survive. But it has changed a lot over the years. But now we are going now all about what farmers do in today’s world of farming such as crops, livestock, equipment, labor, and the expenses on the farm. So this will talk about a lot of what farming is all about.

Deere & Doss 2006 indicates that women are 5 percent of registered landholders in West Africa, 22.4 percent in the Mexican ejidos (communal farming lands) and 15.5 percent in Nicaragua. On average, men’s land holdings are almost three times women’s land holdings. This compromise land access leads women to make suboptimal decisions with regard to crop choices and to obtain lower yields than would otherwise be possible if household resources were allocated efficiently. Insecurity of tenure for women results in lower investment and potential environmental degradation. It also compromises future production potential and increases food insecurity. If women farmers in Bombali Sheborah and Makarie Gbanti Chiefdoms in particular and West Africa in general had the same access to farm inputs, education, and experience as their men counterparts, their yields for maize, beans, and cowpeas could increase as much as 22 percent (Quisumbing

1A. Horticulture for the women in Germany can only use hand tools to harvest grapes near the worm holes. And the men are the ones that runs the machinery on the grape farm. 2A. The purpose of horticulture is so they are in need of crops the germens go and pull them themselves. Instead of paying some to do it for them. And men and women can both fish with each other instead of just the men doing it themselves.

Through emphasizing the shortcomings of patriarchal sciences—such as the green revolution and biotechnology—Shiva highlights the importance of women in agriculture. Masculine methods of agriculture assume superiority over Third World methods. They regard Third World methods (which are largely influenced by women’s expertise) as “primitive” and “backward.” However, in reality,

Women are slowly break through the invisible glass ceiling, that had been placed by male business owners to prevent women’s independence. With more women showing new entrepreneurs how to succeed and to run their business in the way that they feel is best, by either sharing the work load with their employees, or by acting more like a male proprietor is up to the person as there is no right or wrong way to run a successful business. Women have overcome many hurdles in supporting their families because given the choice, they will provide well not just for their families but for other families as well. Hoping that the future generations of women do not have to settle for what they are given, but go out and take what they want in the way of independence and future prosperity. It is up to us to change the minds of men and succeed in shattering the glass ceiling that they have put into

Furthermore cotton farming enables women headed households to buy machinery, farm tools and implement. Some correspondents noted that they managed to buy farm implements like mouldboard ploughs as well as disc harrows. They also pointed they managed to buy farm machinery like cultivators as well as planters. This clearly shows that cotton farming has a positive impact on women headed households in Nembudziya 3 ward 15.

The motivation for choosing this area of research is, Malawi is one of the least developed countries in Africa who have been experiencing harsh climatic weather. As a country in sub-Africa, Malawi is a landlocked country that is located in the Southeast of Africa. In 2014, the country is estimated to have a population of 16.83 million and about 50.7% of the population lived below the poverty line (World Bank, 2014). In another research, it is noted that women in Malawi are mostly affected by climate change due to their roles within the households. Men and women have different gender roles within the society and that a woman faces more challenges and barriers when it comes to accessibility and control of resources (Kakota et al. 2010). Kakota

• Providing training to women on the core competencies required to achieve success at the home, in society and their workplace

Baserup (1970) suggested that women needed to reduce the work loads they had so that they take part in education, projects which will also extend their power in the economy. In addition, Baserup pointed out that women have to receive credit facilities for greater economic projects. For example, Baserup echoed the mechanization of “female farming’ in African women farmers and revolutionarize traditional forms of agriculture for productive efficiency extracted from Schech and Haggis (2000). Rogers (1980) also suggested for a complete overhand of male attitudes against women. Rogers explicitly challenged this in her survey of the FAO institutional arrangement. She concluded that no women were found in field officers in technical division. Rogers (1980) therefore, concluded that women were not only excluded from planning and decision making but were being ignored and overlooked. Furthermore, households were assumed to be male headed which also generalized women as housewives (Rogers 1980:66 in Schech and Haggis, 2000). This shows that women’s work was regarded as non- work due to male bias. However, the WID approach agitated for equity, empowerment, efficiency and equal participation of women in existing structures.

producer of groundnut, next only to China. But groundnut being primarily a Kharif (monsoon) crop is vulnerable to vagaries of monsoon and also speculative activities. In 1996, the Government set up a Technology Mission on oil seeds, to increase production of other oil seeds and oil, and to reduce dependence on imports. The strategy followed was:  To increase productivity with better farm inputs and practices.  To increase area under oilseed crop.  To encourage winter (Rabi) oilseed crops. This led to a sharp increase in oilseed production driven mainly by rapeseed, sunflower, castor seed and Soya Oil seed production jumped from 6.1mn ton in the mid 80's to around 22mn ton currently. India is today world’s third largest producer of rapeseed and cottonseed and the largest producer of castor seed. Timely and adequate rain is expected to result in an all time high oilseed production of 142.4 lakh tonnes during the current year as compared