Constraints Encountered in Vegetable Cultivation by Farmwomen of Odisha: An Empirical study

Deogarh and Bolangir, two agriculturally dominated districts of Odisha were purposefully selected to find out the constraints faced by farm women while performing their roles as vegetable growers. One hundred and twenty farm families were selected randomly for the study from both the districts. The pool of constraints was grouped into four categories viz., technological, infrastructural, economic and social. Lack of knowledge in selection of appropriate variety, pesticide and other inputs was found as the most important technical problem while performing their role in vegetable farming. Non-availability of defined marketing system was perceived as the most important infrastructure related problem. Gender bias in sanctioning of credit to independent female vegetable growers was perceived as a non-effective entity and had the least role to determine vegetable farming by women.