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RURAL WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN AGRICULTURAL AND NON- AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES: A CASE STUDY OF MANSHIET DAHSHOUR VILLAGE, EL – BADRASHEN DISTRICT, GIZA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT.

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Abstract

Egyptian rural women play critical, diverse roles in agricultural
and non- agricultural activities in the rural economy as unpaid family
workers, own- account farmers, and plantations.
The multiple role of women in agriculture, allied occupations
and household activities are generally, underestimated and undervalued.
By and large, they have remained as invisible hands .
The present study was undertaken to determine the nature and
extent of participation of rural women in various agricultural and nonagricultural activities, and their contribution in generating household
income.
A sample size of 100 farm households of Manshiet Dahshour
village were selected randomly, and the housewives of the households,
who worked outside along with their household work, were the
respondents of this study. Data were collected through structured
interview questionnaire during September an October 2016. The
obtained data were analyzed by using tabular and statistical techniques.
The findings showed that most of the respondents constitute
economically active age group who were mostly illiterate.
Contribution of women to total family income in low, medium
and high income household categories were 34.5 , 25.0 and 13.9 per cent
respectively. It was evident that, female participation of low and medium
income households is markedly higher in non- agricultural activities than
the high income households. Women were involved in various
agricultural and non- agricultural activities and largely took part in "
rearing poultry"," harvesting croups ", " post – harvest operations",
"milking and milk processing", " petty trading ", " labor selling " and "
sewing " (dress marketing).
The values of correlation coefficient indicated that only
household size is positively and significantly associated with women
respondent participation in agricultural and non- agricultural activities.

DOI

10.21608/fjard.2017.191239

Keywords

Women, Farm activities, Non- farm activities, Participation

Authors

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Jacinthe

Last Name

Ibrahim Rihan

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Affiliation

Rural Sociology and Agriculture Extension Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain shams University, Arab Republic of Egypt.

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31

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1

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27316

Issue Date

2017-01-01

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2021-08-25

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2017-01-01

Page Start

174

Page End

187

Print ISSN

1110-7790

Online ISSN

2805-2528

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FJARD_Volume 31_Issue 1_Pages 174-187.pdf

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Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development

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https://fjard.journals.ekb.eg/

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RURAL WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN AGRICULTURAL AND NON- AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES: A CASE STUDY OF MANSHIET DAHSHOUR VILLAGE, EL – BADRASHEN DISTRICT, GIZA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT.

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23 Jan 2023