Author: Jelina Singh
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.GD-02-14
Year: 2002
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2002
Examination Committee: Kyoko Kusakabe (Chairperson); Barbara Earth, Amararatne Yakupitiyage (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: This research analyzes the impact of commercial Cash crop farming on the gender roles and relations by comparing the participation of male and female farmers in the household works, agricultural activities, and decision-makings taking case studies of ward no 1 and 2 of Tikathali Village Development Committee (VDC), Lalitpur, Nepal. The research also includes the assessment and comparison of income and expenditures of cash crop farming and subsistence farming households. Finally it comes out with recommendations to improve working conditions and decision making of women farmers. The analysis is based on data collected from 80 households (44.4% of farmers’ population). Out of the total randomly sampled households 28 were practicing Cash crop farming and 52 were practicing Subsistence farming. Data were analyzed using relevant statistical test. In the production of Subsistence and Cash crop both men and women has played a complementary roles in productive and reproductive activities. Responding with expanding market opportunity they have adopted few of the modem technology along with local seeds, which has intensified vegetable farming practices than before especially in Cash crop households. At the same time it has generated extra load to women and men working hours so sharing of task was quiet visible ib the activities among men and women. Women worked more in hours in almost all the activities than men in both types of households. The average working hours of women in both households were 12.7 hours however men had 6.2 hours/day for Subsistence farming households and 7.0 Hours/day for Cash crop farming households. This reveals that, while the working status of women in Subsistence farming intensified as men contributed lesser where as in Cash crop faiming men participated little more and their working hours increased because the earning profit motivated men and encouraged them to participate in all the activities decreasing over load of women to some degree in Cash crop households. The data also showed that men
Scholarship Donor(s): NORAD; AIT (Partial)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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