Role of Agriculture: A boon for Women Empowerment

Abstract

Although there are many areas such as education, social equity, sound health and financial strength which are the indicator of women empowerment but agriculture may be the great source of women empowerment because a large portion of India’s population resides in rural area. As we see there are many reasons of not updating the rural women in the area of scientific knowledge and technology. Addressing in valedictory session Smt. Pratibha Patel, President of India advocated empowering women with new knowledge and skills for agricultural development. From the beginning government has tried to pay attention for making payment to rural people by adopting cashless transactions in various employment opportunities such as receiving wages for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA) through the bank accounts for subsidy in respect of agriculture seeds, tractors tools etc. and dairy farmers for the milk sold to cooperatives or private sector. More than 26.5 Crore Bank accounts have been opened under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna with the aim to ensuring that holder of Jan Dhan Bank Account will become the flag bears of digital culture in the rural areas. The main purpose of this Yojna is to issue Rupay debit cards so that the card holders can make their purchase quite easy in rural or urban area. That’s why 19.5 Crore cards have been issued by the government.