A Study on Market Linkage of Women Farmers through Group Approaches
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https://doi.org/10.48165/JES.2020.36102Keywords:
Group approach, Market linkage, Women empowerment, Women farmersAbstract
Women account for 43 per cent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries and slightly more than 30 per cent in South Asia and India. The Millennium Development Goals specified by the United Nations have “promote gender equality and empower women” as the third most important goal. Group marketing activities have a greater chance of success when attention is not only paid to capacity building in marketing, but also to overall organizational and management skills that could help the groups operate independently. Sankalp Streewadi Aoudhyogik Utpadak Sahakari Sanstha Limited, Uruli Kanchan under BAIF (Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation) is one of the successful women farmers group which conduct combined training for all the members for costing, pricing, quality control, and product development. It also helped in participating in domestic exhibitions/ trade fairs. The paper attempts to analyse the group approach among women farmers and to identify the market linkage among women group farmers through available literature.
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