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- Title
SUITABILITY OF COTTON TECHNOLOGIES AS PERCEIVED BY FARM WOMEN IN SALEM DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU.
- Authors
D., Vengatesan; S., Priyanka; Balu, D.
- Abstract
Cotton is the world's most popular textile raw material and referred to as the "King of fibers" or "White gold". Worldwide cotton is grown in over 100 countries. The cotton is grows well under (warm) tropical climate, with long dry season (over three months) followed by sufficient rains. Production wise it supplies 18.00 percent of the world cotton, about 4,59 million tons per year. Cotton crops stand for about 14 to 16.00 percent of the total crops in India and 4, 5 million farmers and 60 million people in total get their income from cotton (Agarwal 2007). Women referred as 'invisible farmers' are the backbone of agricultural work force in our country. Be it in crop farming, animal husbandry, fisheries, forestry or any allied agricultural activities, women do the most tedious and strenuous tasks. That women play a significant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied fields including in the main crop production, livestock production, horticulture, post harvest operations, agro/social forestry, fisheries, etc. The study was conducted in Salem district of Tamil Nadu. A sample size of 120 small farm women was selected by using proportionate random sampling technique. Cent per cent of the farm women involved in the adoption of suitable cotton technologies were thinning the seedlings, gap filling and pinching of terminal buds.
- Subjects
COTTON growing; DISBUDDING; AGRICULTURAL development; AGRICULTURAL productivity; SOCIAL forestry programs
- Publication
Plant Archives (09725210), 2019, Vol 19, Issue 2, p3303
- ISSN
0972-5210
- Publication type
Article