Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Mukta Surya and Dr. Sangeeta Gupta

Abstract:
The present study “entrepreneurial activities undertaken by rural women related to agro & non-agro commodities” was carried in two blocks of Kanpur Nagar; in each block six villages were selected randomly and in each village 25 rural women were selected. Overall, 300 rural women were selected from 2 blocks of 12 villages randomly.Out of total rural women 36.7% belonged to 50 years and above age group, whereas it was observed that 58.7% rural women were doing agriculture activity. 28.0% of rural women were educated up to intermediate and most of them belonged to OBC category and they mostly followed Hindu religion. 66.7% rural women belonged to the income group of 50000 to 100000 and they had holding of about 2.5 to 5 acres land. Majority of rural women 84.7% belonged to nuclear family where they had 5 to 8 members in family whereas mostly were married. The study shows that major involvement of rural women was in dairy products, sugar and jaggery & atta milling activities in agro based enterprises. And in non- agro based that major involvement of rural women was in basket making, coir rope making and match stick manufacturing. The result of this study made it abundantly evident that women participated to a larger level in both farm and non-farm activities as well as numerous household decision-making processes.