LIFE OF TRIBAL WOMEN AGRICULTURAL LABOURER IN GAJAPATI DISTRICT OF ODISHA: A DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES

This paper emphasizes on the present situation of women in agriculture and suggests possible roadmaps to mainstream women in development process. Women’s contribution in any economy is inevitable. Their roles vary region to region, work to work, state to state, and country to country. The poor tribal farmers that make use of low cost renewable inputs family and community labour for solving the food crises through their traditional practice or traditional wisdom which need documentation make the future agricultural sustainable practices. According to Swami Vivekananda “There is no chance for welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved”. The poor tribal are practices own ideas and own traditionally agricultural wisdom though the people had changed their cultivation pattern from traveller’s cultivation to settled cultivation, but some of the practices have remained unchanged among many group of farmers. The poor tribal or valleys tribal are practices own ideas through their cultivators land like a jhoom cultivation, traveller cultivation and mixed cultivation. On This paper identified that women agricultural labourers are practiced on their own cultivators land i.e. highest in sowing, weeding, picking, threshing and transplanting.