New Delhi: Whenever we talk about working women, the image of women going to the office every day in tampos, buses, cars, and trains comes out in our mind, but we forget that every day in the fields in the country millions of women farmers works. In India, a man works for about 1800 hours of farming in an entire year, while women do 3000 hours of farming.

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Women do farming for about 9 hours every day. Women also have to do household work, child care, and animal care etc. These rural women are considered to be the real working women of India. Not only India, rural women have more than 50% contribution in the field of agriculture all over the world. According to the 2011 census, more than 6 crore women in the country have been related to farming. According to research, women in Bihar, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan have the highest participation in farming. Whereas in Kerala, Punjab and West Bengal women are less interested.

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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the contribution of rural women to the total labor of the agricultural sector is 43%, while in some developed countries this number is also 70 to 80%. In the Himalayan region, a rural woman works an average of 3485 hours per hectare every year, while men work an average of 1212 hours. Along with agriculture, women are also contributing in fisheries and animal husbandry.

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