@article{3371,
author = "Divya Rajpurohit and Neena Sareen",
abstract = "In India, participation of women in livestock management is a long tradition and dairy farming has been an integral part of homestead farming system. Dairy farming has a close relationship with family life. Agricultural women play important role in animal husbandry, but their contribution to livestock rearing has not been given due place because they always remain invisible workers. Many research studies have indicated that the responsibilities of dairy are entirely on women's shoulders. There is enough evidence to show that livestock and management related activities are primarily the responsibility and domain of rural women. Generally women are responsible for feeding, feed collection, milking, processing, dung management and while men who usually manage the sale of milk and milk products. They are actively participating in various dairy farming practices, including harvesting of fodder crops, taking care of the sick animal, preparing the feed, feeding the animals, cleaning animal sheds, milking of animals, cow dung collection and making dung cake etc. Women represent an important part of agricultural labour force in developing countries, especially in areas like Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. However, in all areas, women have less access to agricultural production and socio-economic development than men, such as land, expansion or education. Wages for women farm labourers are generally lesser than men, while lesser paid work in agricultural processing is assigned to women regularly. In some countries, a husband's family can take land and livestock from a woman on the death of her husband, so that she becomes destitute. Therefore it is important to use the gender lens in analyzing the social diversity to highlight the causes of inequality and to identify the barriers to women's productivity, livelihood and the reduction of the capacity of agriculture.",
issn = "23191473",
journal = "IJAIR",
keywords = "Dairy Farming;Time Spent Pattern;Animal Husbandry;Livelihood;Gender;Harvesting",
month = "January",
number = "4",
pages = "129-136",
title = "{T}ime {S}pent {P}attern of {R}ural {M}en and {W}omen on {S}elected {D}airy {F}arming {P}ractices in {B}ikaner {D}istrict of {R}ajasthan, {I}ndia",
volume = "10",
year = "2022",
}