Event Description

Dr.Madhurima Goswami, Head ChandraprabhaSaikiani Centre for Women’s Studies, Tezpur University, gave the welcome address and welcomed the speaker of the programme, Hema Das. The resource person, Hema Das is a multi-disciplinary community worker and has contributed a lot in the grassroot level.

Dr. Goswami addressed the gathering about women and agriculture and its reality and also women not being designated as farmers. Women are not being acknowledged as preservers of seed stock. In agriculture, there is no equity nor equality. The attempt is to try to see where the centre is moving and what is the work that can be followed.

A short presentation on “Rural Women and Agriculture” was delivered by Dr. Ivy Daimary, Research Associate, CSCWS, Tezpur University. The presentation is a part of an ongoing project entitled “Women in Economic Sector: Assam” sponsored by CWDS, Delhi. Dr.Daimary presented on how the rural women have empowered themselves through agriculture with their traditional method of cultivation. Women are actively involved in agriculture right from the seed preserving to cultivating and selling the food products to the market thereby contributing to the family and the society.