Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Ashwini P Dangore, Dr. PA Sawant, Dr. SC Warwadekar, Komal V Maske and AV Desai

Abstract:
The present study “Factors affecting empowerment of rural women in agri-based enterprises” was conducted in all the five districts of Konkan region of Maharashtra namely Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg and in each district 50 trained rural women were selected. Thus, total 250 trained rural women were selected from all five districts of konkan region. Out of total rural women 68.00 percent belonged to middle age group, with ‘secondary’ level of education (34.00 percent), ‘medium’ family size (71.60 percent). Majority of rural women belonged to ‘nuclear’ family type (54.40 percent), ‘marginal’ land holding (75.20 percent), ‘medium’ annual income of family (57.60 percent), ‘medium’ annual income from agri-based enterprises of rural women (64.40 percent), ‘medium’ level of source of information (68.80 percent), ‘medium’ level of social participation (73.20 percent), ‘medium’ economic motivation (46.00 percent), ‘medium’ risk orientation (42.00 percent), received ‘two to three’ training (50.40 percent) and (63.60 percent) of rural women attended one day training programme. Further it was reported that, education, land holding, annual income, source of information, social participation, economic motivation, risk orientation and training received had positive and significant relationship with their empowerment of rural women while family size had non-significant and age, family type had negatively non-significant with empowerment of rural women.