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Assessment of Gender Role in Agriculture Activities and Natural Resource Management

Received: 10 April 2020     Accepted: 5 May 2020     Published: 27 October 2020
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The study was conducted in Buffer Zone area of Chitwan National Park selecting Ghailaghari CFUGs of Bharatpur Municipality and Bagmara CFUGs of Ratnanagar Municipality, Chitwan District in the year April 2019 to get information about the role of gender in natural resources management. Total sampling household were 60. The primary data were collected through semi structured questionnaire and collected information were tabulated in SPSS Version 21. Descriptive and Multivariate Analysis were performed by SPSS version 21. The result showed that forest visit by male and female were 17% and 83%. Involvement in marketing of forest product by male, female and both were 40%, 58% and 2% respectively but found non-significant (p>0.05) relation between male and female. 71% male respondents and 56% female respondents were engaged on afforestation programme. Involvement on river embankment construction and drinking water collection by male and female were 83% and 17%, 3% and 97% respectively. 83% household engaged male only for tillage operation, 65% household engaged male only for seed broadcasting and 63% household engaged male only for pesticide application. Similarly, 77% household engaged female only for intercultural operation and 80% household engaged both male and female on harvesting of agriculture crops. Knowledge about organic agriculture is 1.284 times more in male as compare to female. Similarly, marginalized people are 24.3% less likely known about the knowledge of compost making from household waste but not found significant difference within gender about knowledge of compost making. 92% were male involved in decision making regarding natural resource management.

Published in International Journal of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijbbmb.20200502.12
Page(s) 29-33
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Keywords

Female, Involvement, Knowledge, Male

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