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Women’s Participation in Rice Mills in Sherpur Sadar Upazila of Bangladesh

Naima Sultana
Former MS student
Dept. of Agril. Ext. and Rural Development, BSMRAU, Gazipur, Bangladesh

M.S.I. Afrad
Professor
Dept. of Agril. Ext. and Rural Development, BSMRAU, Gazipur, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The main purpose of this study was to determine women’s participation in rice mills of Sherpur sadar upazila of Bangladesh. Ninety respondents were selected using cluster random sampling method. The researchers personally collected data from August to September 2012. Aimed at explaining the assessment of the present status of women worker of rice mills and explored the relationship between their selected characteristics and extent of participation. Majority of the respondents had long experience in working in the rice mill and almost everybody had participation around the year. Women were mostly involved in drying and on an average spent time for helping in husking machine operating (3.02 hours) followed by final drying of paddy (2.05 hours), drying the paddy before boiling (1.25 hours), piling the paddy (1.12 hours), cleaning the threshing floor (1.05 hours), packing the rice (1.02 hours) per day. They worked about 8-10 hours per day. Results show that the women worker’s performance decreased with the increase of their age.

Keywords: Rice Mills, Women’s Participation

Location: Sherpur sadar upazila was purposively selected for the study.

Start Date: 00-08-2012

End Date: 00-06-2012

Program Area: Postharvest and Agro-processing

Non-commodity: Rice

Objectives:

To explore the extent of participation by the respondents in the rice mills in the selected area.

Methodology:

Sherpur sadar upazila was purposively selected for the study. Accordingly, a list of rice mills was collected from the rice mill owner association of Sherpur. List shows that there are 391 rice mills in the study area. From the list, four rice mills namely, M/S Bangla Rice Mill, M/S Ruman Suman Rice Mill, M/S Jisan Rice Mill and M/S Aditi Rice Mill were selected following cluster sampling technique. Then the researcher collected list of women workers from the managers or the owners of the selected rice mills. In each mill, 20 to 30 women have been working daily or permanent basis. Thus, all women workers of these four rice mills were the sample of this study, which was 90 in number (from M/S Bangla Rice Mill 27, from M/S Ruman Suman Rice Mill 22, from M/S Jisan Rice Mill 21 and from M/S Aditi Rice Mill 20 respondents). Data were collected through face-to-face interview method using pre-design and pre-tested interview schedules. Selected characteristics of the respondents such as age, education, family size, properties, earning member in the family, marital status, family type, physical fitness, working experience, relation with superiors or mill-owner, relation with colleague/ fellow worker, contribution to the family were considered as the independent variables of the study and computing appropriate scores. The characteristics were measured either raw scores or through rated scores. Amount of time spent by women rice mill worker was the dependent variable of the study. It was measured by calculating the actual time spent (in hour) in the rice mill by the respondent women. Total time spent by the respondents in different activities of rice mill was identified in hours per day.

Source of Information: ISSN: 2224-0616 Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech. 4 (1): 36-39, June, 2014 Available online at http://www.ijarit.webs.com

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Achievement/Findings:

From the findings and their logical interpretation, it can be concluded that most of the respondents of the study were middle aged, illiterate, physically sound, married, had a medium family size, respondent and her husband are earning member in their family, possessed only house. Most of the respondents have long experience of working in the rice mill and almost everybody has round the year participation. The mill owner or superiors are cooperative to respondents and good relation with colleagues and medium contribution to the family. Women are mostly involved in drying the paddy and on an average spent time for helping in husking machine operating (3.02 hours) followed by final drying of paddy (2.05 hours), drying the paddy before boiling (1.25 hours), piling the paddy (1.12 hours), cleaning the threshing floor (1.05 hours), packing the rice (1.02 hours) per day. Therefore, women in rice mill work about 8-10 hours per day.

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