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Pradeep Kumar

23/10/21 09:00 AM IST

Women in Agri-Startups

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The Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare organizeda webinar on “Women in Agri-startups.

Role of women in agriculture
  • Women play a decisive role in ensuring Food Security and Preserving local Agro-Biodiversity.
  • Women is not only confined to agriculture after India's independence but their contribution is visible in all sectors including defence, space, administration, sports etc.
About the webinar
  • It was organized for creating Value with Supply Chain Management” in the series of events for celebrating MahilaKisanDiwas 2021.
  • The Webinar on Women in Agri-Startups focused on Enabling Women Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness; Strategy and Schemes to support Agri-Startups in India; Technology transfer to Startups for Commercialization; Value Chain
  • Management and Challenges faced by Agri-StartupsAgripreneures.
  • Agriculture sector employs 80% of all economically active women; they comprise 33% of the agricultural labour force and 48% of self-employed farmers.
  • The focus is on the formation ofwomen Self Help Groups (SHGs), Women Federations and Women Farmer Producer Organisations; capacity building interventions; linking them to microcredit; enhancing their access to information and ensuring their representation in decision making bodies at various levels.
Significance

With women predominant at all levels of production- pre-harvest, post-harvest processing, packaging, marketing- of the agricultural value chain, to increase productivity in agriculture, it is imperative to adopt gender-specific interventions. 

Source: PIB

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