Decision Making Pattern of Farm Women in Different Farm and Non-farm Activities
P. Saikia *
Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, College of Community Science, AAU, Jorhat, India.
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Abstract
The present study was undertaken to study the decision making pattern of farm Women in different farm and non-farm activities with following objectives i) to study the selected personal and socio personal and socio-economic characteristic of rural women and ii) to analyze the decision making pattern of rural women in different farm and non farm activities The study was conducted in Six Districts of Assam. A purposive cum simple random sampling technique was adopted for selecting the respective samples for the study. Altogether 1200 farm women were selected for the present study. Data was collected personally by interview method. The findings reveals that farm women belonged to low socio-economic status, less than fifty per cent of farm women took independent decision in maintenance of house (35.25%), followed by buying food items for family consumption (34.17%) and crop harvesting and transporting (33.75%). majority (78.75%) of farm women took joint decision in purchase of household items, purchase of implements (73.66%) followed by selling of crops and where to sell (72.42%), buying of clothes for family members (67.25%).
Keywords: Decision making, rural women, farm and non-farm activities, socio-economic characteristic.